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OpenStack DefCore Lexicon
Licensing the OpenStack commercial-use marks requires passing tests of DefCore required capabilities, and including designated sections of code. There are multiple marks available for vendors depending on which capability groupings are passed.
TERMS:
- Core
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Word to be avoided in this process due to confusion with other uses.
- DefCore
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The OpenStack board committee that manages commercial definition of OpenStack for trademark purposes.
- DefCore Process
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The process used by DefCore to score capabilities and select criteria.
- Designated Sections
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Portions of the OpenStack codebase that must be used to provide required capabilities in a product wishing to use the OpenStack trademark. Designated sections fulfill one or more of the following criteria: they provide the project-external REST API, or are shared and provide common functionality for all options, or implement logic that is critical for cross-platform operation. Designated sections must exist in the OpenStack gerrit namespace and have corresponding tests. Code that meets the following criteria will not be considered designated: provides vendor-specific functionality, are explicitly intended by the project maintainers to be replaceable, extend the project REST API in a new or different way, or code that is being deprecated.
- Guidelines
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Output of the DefCore process detailing which sections and capabilities are required. Guidelines will be approved on a regular cadence and identified by the date of approval.
- Capability
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The functionality ensured by a set of tests collected into a group as defined by the DefCore committee Required - capabilities that are required to meet the guideline.
- Advisory
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Capabilities that have been suggested for the next guideline.
- Deprecated
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Capabilities that will be removed in the next guideline.
- Component
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A collection of functionality generally used together (e.g.: object, compute).
- Platform
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The collection of components required to use the least restricted mark.
- OpenStack Mark
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Right granted by the OpenStack Foundation to use the name and logo of OpenStack in a vendor’s product.
- Test
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Program that exercises functionality of a component to validate expected behavior and provides pass or fail judgement.
- Flagged Test
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A test that does not provide consistent results in the field and it not required for vendor self-test.
- Self-test
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Process by which a vendor runs tests against their product or service without 3rd party observation.
- Certify or Accredit
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DefCore does not do any of these things for OpenStack clouds. These actions would fall under the governance of the Foundation trademark policy.