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[–] [email protected] 227 points 1 year ago (13 children)

TIL Wayland is named after a town

[–] [email protected] 112 points 1 year ago (5 children)

so is dracut and weston.

i think that naming software after towns in Massachusetts is somekind of red hat in-joke.

[–] [email protected] 121 points 1 year ago (3 children)

It's even neater. The name of towns/cites cannot be trademarked. The safest thing you can do when naming a project is naming it after a town so you don't run into legal troubles in the future.

[–] [email protected] 34 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 28 points 1 year ago

You can eventually trademark once you get big enough. As with all things law it's a bit tricky. However, the default is that geographic locations aren't trademarkable.

For further reading on when you can trademark.

https://www.yospinlaw.com/2016/06/15/trademark-on-a-geographical-location

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