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simonbrown on March 22, 2012 | parent | context | favorite | on: I'm not good enough to work on open source softwar...

How are they similar? Trademarks just prevent people from using the branding, and just represents a minor hurdle (see CENTOS), while copyright (with a restrictive license) would prevent people using almost anything.

If trademarks are the main protection, the main barrier to entry is branding, not technology.

(IANAL)

gcp on March 26, 2012 [–]

Trademarks are copyright on the branding.

If trademarks are the main protection, the main barrier to entry is branding, not technology.

Yes. Isn't that obviously the case for open source software?

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