Why trademark Open Source software
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Why trademark Open Source software
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Re: Why trademark Open Source software
#2This is spot-on! It took a year to get our trademarks for our open source software, including negotiating with another claimant and waiting for yet another potential claimant to drop out of the race. It was not fun or cheap but totally worth it.
I just got our "ribbon copy" (with the gold seal) yesterday!
Re: Why trademark Open Source software
#3Error establishing a database connection
Did we crash their server?
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#4Error establishing a database connection Did we crash their server?
Yeah, same for me.
They should enable some caching plugin...
Re: Why trademark Open Source software
#5Yep, years ago I was loosely involved (as a Koha developer working for one of the organisations involved) in this: https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/230631/koha-trademark-ca...
It was a lot of work by a lot of people involved to get the right conclusion, which (in 20/20 hindsight) could perhaps have been avoided by doing it "right" in the first place.
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#6Fully agree. Some distros are packaging my software with bad patches constantly and then ignore requests to rename the package to make it clear that it's a fork.
Unfortunately for small projects registering a trademark is just not feasible. I have considered going from actual open source to source available though.
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#7I can't view the article (seeing "Error establishing a database connection"). But isn't trademark prohibitively expensive and (traditionally) applies to just one country?
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#8Error establishing a database connection Did we crash their server?
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#9Error establishing a database connection (TM)
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#10Error establishing a database connection (TM)