[Quickfix-users] Forks of QuickFIX/J and the use of the name "quickfix"

[David G. <Dav...@ig...>]

Dear community,

We are building from a fork of QuickFIX/J. We customise the FIX 5.0 SP2 dictionary in FIX50SP2.modified.xml in order to generate code that conforms to our ROE. I am writing to this group as this is where questions with regard to the QUICKFIX license must be addressed.

We would like to make our fork of QUICKFIX/J publically visible by maintaining a fork on github and to also make the built artefacts available. Some of our counterparties may benefit from the built artefacts.

So this is essentially a very minimally changed fork of QuickFIX/J. In github it would be visible as something like IG/quickfixj.

Is this a derivative work in the context of the QuickFIX license, such that I need written permission to communicate its existence to counterparties ?

When the project builds and I publish artefacts to Sonatype (Nexus) I propose to use the "com.ig" namespace. This is to avoid polluting the org.quickfixj group namespace.
I would like to leave the Artefact Ids as they are, these artefact names contain the QuickFIX name.
I'm not promoting any product using the QuickFIX name, simply making available libraries built from QuickFIX/J but from a custom dictionary.
Is this permissible ?

I look forward to hearing your thoughts,

Kind regards
Dave Gibbs

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