APL license - What about the enforced logos?
Rick Moen
rick at linuxmafia.com
Wed Nov 15 08:32:44 UTC 2006
Quoting Matthew Flaschen (matthew.flaschen at gatech.edu):
> Unfortunately, those who popularized the term Open Source failed to
> protect it as a trademark; the same is true of "Free Software" (which
> was also a poor choice of terminology for the FSF's ideals). Now, there
> is no way to enforce a particular meaning.
The strong, vocal, and lasting disapproval of the open source community
counts as enforcement in practical terms, I think -- though not in legal
terms. Lasting unfavourable PR is a real and potentially costly
concern.
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