>> Hmm, no one thought of registering "Open Maps" as a trademark as well as >> "OpenStreetMap"?
>What makes you think that if OpenStreetMap is a term deemed to general >to work as a trademark, Open Maps would somehow work? In any case, we are supposed to be open. Trying to trademark names merely similar to our own is one of the most closed, monopolistic actions that it's possible to take. The idea of OSM is to collect and make available free data, not to act as a monopoly and go after similar projects. Nick _______________________________________________ talk mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
