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Novell owns the registered openSUSE trademark. Novell permits and encourages the usage of the official openSUSE artwork
Any 'foundation' probably won't be able to be named 'openSUSE' if I read the ownership of that name/trademark correctly.
You may "read" it correctly; but there is no reason to believe that. Someone [a legally existing entity] *MUST* own the trademark (otherwise it isn't a trademark, same for copyright). There is no reason that entity can't agree to let anyone else use it or even transfer the ownership of the trademark. If there [currently] is no openSUSE foundation / incorporated entity / whatever then, of course, "openSUSE" can't own the "openSUSE" trademark because, simply, there is nobody to own it. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-project+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-project+help@opensuse.org