Eloy.

Apparently the Wikimedia Foundation is totally ok with taking down FOSS projects because of trademark infringement.

I hate the Mozilla Public License for the same reason: just let people freely make changes to your stuff without having to rename everything. Just let them make use of your trademark like the Linux Foundation does.

Jan 18, 2023 at 10:21pmWeb
Show threadEloy.Jan 18, 2023

Lawsuits in cases of bad faith usage seem reasonable to me, but I have seen 4 cases of angry mails against good faith FOSS devs in total by now: 2 from the WMF and 2 from the Mozilla Corporation.

To be fair, the GPL is not much different in this regard: the MPL does explicitly not grant trademark rights, but the GPL does explicitly not prohibit adding additional trademark restrictions. It's mostly the actual acting on the explicit non-grant is what I'm bothered by.

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Show threadMartijnJan 19, 2023
@eloy I thought that Linux was a trademark of Linus Torvalds personally and not the foundation
Show threadEloy.Jan 19, 2023
@m_rtijn Yes, but the legal handling is done by an organization. But indeed, you have to attribute it to him personally.
Show threadEloy.Jan 19, 2023
@m_rtijn Linux Mark Institute Oregon, LLC seems to handle it but their main website redirects to a page of the Linux Foundation website. Good chance they are a subsidiary LLC but I'm not really sure.
Show threadMartijnJan 19, 2023
@eloy not even a Delaware corporation? I am surprised 🤔
Show threadEloy.Jan 19, 2023
@m_rtijn Not necessary if you don't want to avoid taxes.
Show threadMartijnJan 19, 2023
@eloy AFAIK it's also used a lot for procedural reasons and clear jurisprudence