Bayer: Hudson's future
Bayer: Hudson's future
Andrew Bayer has an update on the
future of the Hudson project. "Oracle has told us that they have
trademark applications filed in both the EU and US for Hudson, based on
Hudson's creation by Kohsuke while working at Sun. The problem is that this
trademark ownership gives Oracle the ability to revoke the Hudson project's
right to call itself Hudson at any time, and while Oracle has made an
attempt to offer some guarantees (most notably, that binary releases of
Hudson, once they've been released with the name Hudson attached, will
always retain the right to the name), they are not offering any binding
guarantee that the Hudson project will be able to retain its use of the
name in perpetuity.
" The project will be renamed Jenkins. (Thanks
to Scott Bronson)