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Re:Mary Hubbard New Executive Director of Wordpress.org by ValentineC on Wednesday October 09, 2024 @09:00PM (#41794506)
> Indeed. And there was a lot of Consideration given in this exchange. Automattic owned 100% of the WordPress trademarks. Automattic's "Consideration" was to give all the non-commercial use of those trademarks to the WordPress Foundation.

If I understand your comment correctly, you are saying that Automattic is still the owner of the WordPress trademarks, and granted licenses for non-commercial use to the WordPress Foundation?

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Re:Mary Hubbard New Executive Director of Wordpress.org by metamichael on Thursday October 10, 2024 @12:13AM (#41795433)
It's clear from what he's saying that Automattic once OWNED the trademarks, but transferred those trademarks to the WordPress Foundation, and thus Automattic is NO LONGER THE OWNER of said trademarks.

What Automattic has is an exclusive license to use and sell the commercial licenses of the trademark.

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Re:Mary Hubbard New Executive Director of Wordpress.org by jonnypants83 on Thursday October 10, 2024 @12:42AM (#41795585)
I don't think that's clear.

>Automattic owned 100% of the WordPress trademarks. Automattic's "Consideration" was to give all the non-commercial use of those trademarks to the WordPress Foundation.

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