Trademarks are a problem for free software, because there is a tension between a desire to encourage sharing of the software, and a need to ensure that people are not misled over what exactly that software is. For example, you don't want people distributing modified copies of your code claiming that it is your code, or that it is approved by you - in the worst cases, it might contain malware, for example.
On Open Enterprise blog.
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