Please remove mitsuhiko/*

Re:Please remove mitsuhiko/* by brador on Saturday November 01, 2014 @11:46AM (#8543432)

Can you trademark open source project names?

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Re:Please remove mitsuhiko/* by JohnTHaller on Saturday November 01, 2014 @12:12PM (#8543538)

Absolutely. Mozilla, Firefox, OpenOffice, Apache, Debian, etc are all registered trademarks and can not be used by others without permission.

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Re:Please remove mitsuhiko/* by natch on Saturday November 01, 2014 @01:08PM (#8543756)

And most famously Linux: http://tmsearch.uspto.gov/bin/showfield?f=doc&state=4807:88w...

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Re:Please remove mitsuhiko/* by chx on Saturday November 01, 2014 @01:37PM (#8543858)

Hell yeah.

Drupal trademark policy http://drupal.com/trademark Apache trademark policy http://www.apache.org/foundation/marks/ Eclipse trademark policy https://www.eclipse.org/legal/logo_guidelines.php KDE® and the K Desktop Environment® logo are registered trademarks of KDE e.V. can't find the policy right now.

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Re:Please remove mitsuhiko/* by pmh on Saturday November 01, 2014 @12:01PM (#8543488)

I think so, yes. See Iceweasel[0], the custom Debian build of Firefox. I'm not sure that you'd be successful in using trademark law in this particular scenario though.

[0]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mozilla_Corporation_software_re...

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Re:Please remove mitsuhiko/* by donaldr3 on Saturday November 01, 2014 @01:09PM (#8543759)

Yes, in fact GPLv3 specifically deals with trademarks in section 7e).

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