Re:Show HN: An open source alternative to Evernote (Self Hos...
by pwdisswordfish9 on Wednesday June 01, 2022 @10:26AM
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> IIRC GitHub, (BitBucket), and GitLab existed before this new (license-addendum?) Trademark policy
Trademarks are like copyright licenses where if you haven't been given explicit permission, then you don't have any. (The difference is that you can lose your trademark if you don't actively police misuse, but that's beside the point.)
Re:Show HN: An open source alternative to Evernote (Self Hos...
by westurner on Thursday June 02, 2022 @08:52AM
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Trademark > Registration:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trademark#Registration
Re:Show HN: An open source alternative to Evernote (Self Hos...
by pwdisswordfish9 on Wednesday June 08, 2022 @09:33AM
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Speak in complete sentences.
(Bitcoin is also originally a LF project; in Git, like BitTorrent, and similar to BitGold only in name, for a reason. Bitcoin initially lacked a Foundation to hold trademarks, in particular.)
The choosealicense.com table of licenses in the appendix is a service of GitHub, and GitLab also donates free CI build runner minutes for Open Source projects: https://choosealicense.com/appendix/#trademark-use :
> Trademark use
> This license explicitly states that it does NOT grant trademark rights, even though licenses without such a statement probably do not grant any implicit trademark rights.