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Re:Elasticsearch is open source, again by anticorporate on Thursday August 29, 2024 @04:47PM (#41395102)
What could be learned from this example that might enable companies in the future to leverage trademark instead of a license change to accomplish the same thing? So much damage could have been avoided if this had been resolved differently to begin with.
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Re:Elasticsearch is open source, again by foxyv on Thursday August 29, 2024 @05:33PM (#41395516)
Change your name, not your license.
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Re:Elasticsearch is open source, again by flockonus on Thursday August 29, 2024 @05:43PM (#41395584)
I think they are saying: trademark your product name (open source in this case), make sure it's used only as approved.

Altho i believe it does go back to the license attached to the product.

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Re:Elasticsearch is open source, again by ignaloidas on Friday August 30, 2024 @02:32AM (#41398207)
Source code license doesn't matter, Mozilla did this with Debian, that's why Iceweasel was a thing.
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