Overview #
The Trino project is run by volunteers in a collaborative and open way. Its governance is controlled by the Trino Software Foundation (TSF).
The TSF is an independent, non-profit organization with the mission of supporting a community of passionate users and developers devoted to the advancement of the Trino distributed SQL query engine. It is dedicated to preserving the vision of high quality, performant, and dependable software.
The board members of the TSF are Dain Sundstrom, David Phillips, and Martin Traverso.
The Trino Software Foundation is registered as corporation with file number 7239856 in Delaware, United States of America.
Contact #
You can contact the board members of the TSF on Slack or using the following email addresses:
- [email protected] for general inquiries including copyright, trademark, branding, and sponsorship aspects.
- [email protected] for information about corporate guidelines or notifications about conduct violations.
- [email protected] for security notifications.
Open community #
The Trino Software Foundation supports a diverse, open, collaborative community of developers and users throughout the world. Everyone is welcome to participate, whether it be via code contributions, suggestions for improvements, or bug reports.
Everyone is invited to join the community.
Commitment to open source #
As detailed in the our legal notices all projects use the Apache License 2.0. The Trino Software Foundation is committed to continue using the Apache License 2.0 as a liberal license to ensure the widest possible adoption of Trino by users and vendors alike.
Non-commercial but aware and friendly #
The TSF is happy to have third parties, including for-profit corporations, take our software and use it for their own purposes. However it is important in these cases to ensure that the third party does not misuse the brand and reputation of the Trino projects for its own purposes. It is important for the longevity and community health of Trino that the community gets the appropriate credit for producing freely available software.
We encourage contributions from vendors with proprietary modifications and appreciate any further sponsorship and support.
Responsibilities #
In supporting the Trino community, the Trino Software Foundation has several key functions.
Administration #
The core responsibility of the TSF is to serve as the legal entity which handles all administrative oversight for the Trino project. For example, this includes accounting, legal concerns, and trademarks. The TSF also manages the source code repositories and any other infrastructure.
CLA management #
Contributing to Trino requires agreeing to, signing, and submitting the Contributor License Agreement. The Trino Software Foundation is responsible for reviewing, approving, and tracking all signed CLAs. This ensures that all code contributed to Trino is fully under the Apache License.
The CLA is identical to the CLA of the Apache Software Foundation. All copyright for contributions remains with the individual authors.
Ownership and trademarks #
The Trino brand and trademarks are owned and managed by the Trino Software Foundation. Use of the brand and trademarks by other entities is not permitted, but can be approved by the TSF on a case by case basis.
Assets includes the “trino” name, the “trinodb” name, the logo variations, and the name and likeness of the mascot, “Commander Bun Bun”:
Further variants are available with the
website source code
and the
presentations source code.