Thank you for the reply. I'm glad to know that open source is not a
trademark, therefore I will submit my license per your instructions, and if
you guys approve it (if), then I will return to using the "open source"
words.
-----Original Message-----
From: Russell Nelson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Tuesday, July 31, 2001 12:54 PM
To: Josh
Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: open source trademark
Josh writes:
> 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.
We've given up on that idea. It's not a defendable trademark. We do
maintain a certification mark, "OSI Certified Open Source", which we
apply to any software using an approved license.
> 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.
Best thing to do then is establish your own certification trademark,
and deny its use to anyone who is not interoperable.
> I am patent pending, just so somebody else can't patent it.
All you have to do is publish the ideas in print.
> 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.
If you're asking us to approve it, the procedure is given at
http://opensource.org/docs/certification_mark.html
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