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by brador 4246 days ago
Can you trademark open source project names?
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JohnTHaller 4246 days ago
Absolutely. Mozilla, Firefox, OpenOffice, Apache, Debian, etc are all registered trademarks and can not be used by others without permission.
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natch 4246 days ago
And most famously Linux: http://tmsearch.uspto.gov/bin/showfield?f=doc&state=4807:88w...
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chx 4246 days ago
Hell yeah.

Drupal trademark policy http://drupal.com/trademark Apache trademark policy http://www.apache.org/foundation/marks/ Eclipse trademark policy https://www.eclipse.org/legal/logo_guidelines.php KDE® and the K Desktop Environment® logo are registered trademarks of KDE e.V. can't find the policy right now.

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pmh 4246 days ago
I think so, yes. See Iceweasel[0], the custom Debian build of Firefox. I'm not sure that you'd be successful in using trademark law in this particular scenario though.

[0]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mozilla_Corporation_software_re...

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donaldr3 4246 days ago
Yes, in fact GPLv3 specifically deals with trademarks in section 7e).
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