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> innernet is not an official WireGuard project, and WireGuard is a registered trademark of Jason A. Donenfeld. Is it typical for open source projects to regis

• bityard 4y ago
  I don't know about typical, but it does happen when the owners of a project want the (legal) ability to prevent others from misusing the name to cause confusion. Firefox and Linux are both registered, for example.
• CharlesW 4y ago
  > Is it typical for open source projects to register trademarks? Yes! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linux_Mark_Institute https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linux_Mark_Institute https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_trademarked_open-source_software https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_trademarked_open-sourc...
• chipsa 4y ago
  It is typical, if only to keep the trademark from being used by a completely unrelated bit of software. See https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/foundation/trademarks/policy/ https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/foundation/trademarks/policy/ or https://trademarks.justia.com/771/04/sqlite-77104711.html https://trademarks.justia.com/771/04/sqlite-77104711.html It just gives teeth when someone uses them wrongly.
  • paulgb 4y ago
    Hence Debian shipping the “Iceweasel” browser instead of “Firefox”. (I may have the history wrong here? In any case, someone forked Firefox and called it Iceweasel for trademark reasons.)
    • smegsicle 4y ago
      yeah debian was screwing with the builds as they frequently do on their repos, and mozilla lawyers pointed out that the trademark is only allowed for the unmodified software evidently they worked things out since, as they're calling it firefox again