“Owning” a Trademark–The SugarCRM et al License Debate

“There is a discussion going on at SugarCRM’s forum page, ‘Why
the Sugar license is mad, bad and may be dangerous’–part of a much
larger discussion that Matt Aslett captures well in this article on
the current state of such non-OSI-approved licenses–that reminded
me that I’ve been meaning to explain something to you about
trademarks. I keep reading sentences that OSI doesn’t ‘own’ the
trademark to Open Source. I think such a sentence should be written
instead that it doesn’t have a *registered* trademark, but here’s
the thing: you don’t have to register a trademark to have one. I
think it’s important to understand that, so let me show you some
materials I’ve collected for you on this subject…”

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