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Re:Oracle owns “JavaScript”, so Apple is taking down my app by ac2u on Wednesday April 18, 2018 @10:10AM (#16867507)
If it's the case that by not going after the user of JavaScript, they would be putting their Java trademark in peril, then perhaps a solution would be for oracle to put out a notice putting the term JavaScript under a creative commons commerical non-attribution license.

That way, they keep everything 'java' protected, without the poor PR of targeting the use of the term 'JavaScript'.

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Re:Oracle owns “JavaScript”, so Apple is taking down my app by lvh on Thursday April 19, 2018 @01:59PM (#16878282)
Trademark is not the same thing as copyright. A work might be affected by both, but "put it under a CC license" does nothing to make the trademark freely usable. To make the trademark freely usable, they simply have to abandon it or create a liberal trademark policy like Mozilla's or Wikimedia's (or even CCs).

(IANAL.)

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