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Trademarks are interesting. I don't know if this is an apples to apples comparison, but I remember 5 years back there was a big issue with JBoss and trademarks

Trademarks are interesting. I don't know if this is an apples to apples comparison, but I remember 5 years back there was a big issue with JBoss and trademarks. One guy trademarked the name and made a boatload of money when his group sold the rights to Redhat. And I believe many of the open source developers that contributed were not allowed to use the name for commercial purposes. http://thejbossissue.blogspot.com/2005/10/free-open-source-software-foss-and.html http://thejbossissue.blogspot.com/2005/10/free-open-source-s... Does anyone know if there is some kind of 'open source trademark' to prevent a Marc Fleury/JBoss incident?

sh1mmer 15y ago
Disclaimer: I work at Joyent, not legal advice, yada yada We don't want to be that guy, but we have to enforce the trademark now (in order to keep it), to allow us to use it stop any abuse to the community that might happen in the future.
- Natsu 15y ago
  Ask your lawyer for advice on whether this is a good idea or not, but I have heard of people protecting their trademark by sending out "Permit and Proceed" letters when they identified people using their mark in a non-harmful way that would otherwise require trademark defense. Looks like I heard that from an old Slashdot story about Linden Labs: http://slashdot.org/story/07/01/31/0216258/Linden-Labs-Sends-Permit-and-Proceed-Letter http://slashdot.org/story/07/01/31/0216258/Linden-Labs-Sends...
- bliss 15y ago
  Surely the trademark is node.js - that's what everyone calls it...