Hello @J12t @evan , do you per chance know whether there is a copyright on the term "Fediverse"?Looks like some tech bros are trying to capitalise on it ...CITI Fediverse - Pioneering Blockchain For The Metaversehttps://citi.vip/
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Hello @J12t @evan , do you per chance know whether there is a copyright on the term "Fediverse"?
Looks like some tech bros are trying to capitalise on it ...CITI Fediverse - Pioneering Blockchain For The Metaverse
https://citi.vip/ -
Evan Prodromoureplied to Jörg von Frantzius on last edited by
@jfrantzius @J12t that's not how copyright works. You're thinking of trademark. And, no, I don't think there is one.
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Jörg von Frantziusreplied to Evan Prodromou on last edited by
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Johannes Ernstreplied to Jörg von Frantzius on last edited by
@jfrantzius @evan a trademark on “fediverse” or equivalent term might be difficult because little in the fediverse today is bought and sold for money, which is required for a “trade” mark. A certification mark might have more chance of success, but that would require well defined criteria for certification and I don’t think we have those (yet?). It would also centralize the definition, and I’m having a hard time believing the community would accept that. (Not a lawyer)
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Johannes Ernstreplied to Johannes Ernst on last edited by
@jfrantzius @evan personally, I’d be in favor of a certification mark as long as the organization owning it is “democratically” governed, for some version of democracy that keeps the trolls and attackers out while being very egalitarian and participatory and flat on the inside.
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Evan Prodromoureplied to Johannes Ernst on last edited by
@J12t @jfrantzius OSI is a membership organization that manages the "OSI Approved License" mark. I think that's probably a good model to follow.
Licenses
OSI Approved Licenses Open source licenses are licenses that comply with the Open Source Definition – in brief, they allow software to be freely used, modified, and shared. To be…
Open Source Initiative (opensource.org)
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Johannes Ernstreplied to Evan Prodromou on last edited by
@evan @jfrantzius legally probably a good model, I agree. Also: protocol marks like OpenID (my company used to be the original owner of the (R) before we donated the mark to the foundation).
But: practically the existence of the OSI and its mark has ossified license innovation, and arguably held back the development of sorely needed new licenses that are now considered “proprietary” although perhaps closer to the original free software principles than some osi ones. -
@[email protected] @[email protected] @[email protected] perhaps this is me being jaded but this entire thing could become a non issue when that crypto scheme goes belly up in 6 months.
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