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Google has [1]announced the creation of the [2]Open Usage Commons , which is intended to help open-source projects manage their trademarks. From [3]the organization's own announcement : " We created the Open Usage Commons because free and fair open source trademark use is critical to the long-term sustainability of open source. However, understanding and managing trademarks takes more legal know-how than most project maintainers can do themselves. The Open Usage Commons is therefore dedicated to creating a model where everyone in the open source chain – from project maintainers to downstream users to ecosystem companies – has peace of mind around trademark usage and management. The projects in the Open Usage Commons will receive support specific to trademark protection and management, usage guidelines, and conformance testing. " Initial members include the Angular, Gerrit, and Istio projects.



[1] https://opensource.googleblog.com/2020/07/announcing-new-kind-of-open-source.html

[2] https://openusage.org/

[3] https://openusage.org/news/introducing-the-open-usage-commons/