Hello, I'm a developer in need of a custom open source license. It came to my attention that "open source" is a registered trademark of your organization. I don't have all that much time to dedicate to the license, so I'm asking for some help to clarify a few things. I've designed a global file system. As such, it cannot succeed if there are a dozen flavors of the same basic design floating around. It's essential that I maintain a degree of management over my design, yet as an open standard it must be "open" source. I am patent pending, just so somebody else can't patent it. Yet I intend to release the design royalty free, and open source. Therefore I wrote my own version of the GNU license (www.mercuryfs.net/license.htm. It's not ready for prime time, but it's all I got at the moment. We like to think of the internet as free and open, yet there is a bit of management and centralness to it, DNS and the ICANN organizations are perfect examples. I will need to provide those types of services to the design, once deployed. Has anybody else encountered such a situation? Any help appreciated, - josh _______________________________________________ Chat mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.freenetproject.org/mailman/listinfo/chat