rhabarba@feddit.de to Linux@lemmy.mlEnglish · 1 year agoThe Linux Foundation has become a patent trollbladerunner.socialexternal-linkmessage-square51fedilinkarrow-up1143arrow-down134file-text
arrow-up1109arrow-down1external-linkThe Linux Foundation has become a patent trollbladerunner.socialrhabarba@feddit.de to Linux@lemmy.mlEnglish · 1 year agomessage-square51fedilinkfile-text
It seems that the Linux Foundation has decided that both “systemd” and “segmentation fault” (lol?) are trademarked by them.
minus-squaresquiblet@kbin.sociallinkfedilinkarrow-up4arrow-down3·1 year agoIt doesn’t matter because trademark law is about usage and active protection of rights, not origination.
minus-squarebluGill@kbin.sociallinkfedilinkarrow-up11·1 year agoIt does matter because projects like *BSD can prove continuous usage of the term. As such either the trademark is easy to break (it is common use), or it can only be a trademark in very specific contexts that are unlikely to apply.
It doesn’t matter because trademark law is about usage and active protection of rights, not origination.
It does matter because projects like *BSD can prove continuous usage of the term. As such either the trademark is easy to break (it is common use), or it can only be a trademark in very specific contexts that are unlikely to apply.