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Trademarks
http://blogs.gnome.org/ bolsh/ 2008/ 04/ 28/ trademarks/
Funny, this post has been in my drafts for months… in relation to my earlier post, and since a trademark issue is at the heart of much of the recent OpenSolaris controversy, the time felt right to finish & publish it. Many moons ago, there was a discussion on the FLOSS foundations mailing list about trademarks for the Nth time, after Simon Phipps proposed having a BOF on the subject at OSCON. My initial reaction was “I hope that people find something new to talk about”, I’ve been involved in many conversations on the application of trademark law to free software projects, and typically, the range of reactions is: Defending trademarks is important, and the (US) law requires aggressive defense (the Mozilla or Wikipedia position).
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