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Exhibit B, C: https://automattic.com/2024/09/25/open-source-trademarks-wp-... Put some money on those 0% odds.

The law is not black-and-white. Absolutes like "Everyone can use your Trademark to identify the thing" don't fit in this context. Your reliance on Wikipedia to summarize a doctrine…

That's not how U.S. trademark law works.

To me, it seems they have been using the mark to describe a product and the policy says clearly: > but they cannot use them as part of a product I mean, just go to wpengine.com and…

I'm hopeful Automattic will win this one; WP Engine repackages WordPress and delivers it as a service. Fine. Software license allows for that. That does not give them the right to …

Certainly. MIT/BSD more or less says: steal away (but retain this license notice). In some cases that's desirable.

Only if you think taking the work of others and profiting from it without contributing anything back is fine.

BSD/MIT allows you to take code without any obligation to contribute back.

MIT/BSD and similar ones.

The AGPL is great, even for business. I make a living from AGPL software. Lots of people generally don't like it, because AGPL was not written to please the largest number of devel…

I handle this by redirecting all questions (anything that isn't a feature request or a bug report) to the project's community forum (hosted on discourse). Then I wrote and deployed…

Excellent, good for them! I don't understand why other governments don't follow suit, or why people are opposed to it. There might be some valid cons about requiring the use of FOS…

A Chrome extension to voluntarily add informative warning labels to social media websites. There is a significant association between social media use and depression. Recently the …

Not open source. Misleading title.

The app looks very cool, but you might have a licensing issue; Meta's NLLB models are CC-BY-NC 4.0 (non-commercial use only). I could recommend checking out the OPUS-NLP models, wh…

Cool, but not touching this; no license and requires Inria's proprietary rasterizer. People should stop basing all of this new research on proprietary software, when we have open s…

"never apply". https://dodcio.defense.gov/Open-Source-Software-FAQ/