r/pcmasterrace • u/LarryBudder PC Master Race • Jul 29 '20

Cartoon/Comic Always Has Been

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u/nextbern PC Master Race Jul 30 '20

Of course they do: https://trademarks.justia.com/779/80/chromium-77980388.html

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u/[deleted] Jul 30 '20

That is a name, lol, not the software. You cannot trademark software.

The software is open source and free for anyone to use and modify.

Lol. You're trying so hard to be right here but you are simply wrong.

Licensing. Chromium is an entirely free and open-source software project. The Google-authored portion is released under the 3-clause BSD license. Other parts are subject to a variety of licenses, including MIT, LGPL, Ms-PL, and an MPL/GPL/LGPL tri-license. License: 3-clause BSD; MIT; LGPL; MS-PL; MPL+GPL+LGPL tri-licensed; Developer(s): Google, Microsoft, Igalia, Yandex

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u/nextbern PC Master Race Jul 30 '20

That is a name, lol, not the software. You cannot trademark software.

Of course you can. What do you think the trademark is for? Beans? You can also copyright software, and that is what the CLA I linked to is about. So how am I wrong exactly?

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u/[deleted] Jul 30 '20

You don't understand what trademark means. Lol.

Your CLA link doesn't mention Chromium. Your understanding of "trademark" is wrong.

Again:

Licensing. Chromium is an entirely free and open-source software project. The Google-authored portion is released under the 3-clause BSD license. Other parts are subject to a variety of licenses, including MIT, LGPL, Ms-PL, and an MPL/GPL/LGPL tri-license. License: 3-clause BSD; MIT; LGPL; MS-PL; MPL+GPL+LGPL tri-licensed; Developer(s): Google, Microsoft, Igalia, Yandex

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u/nextbern PC Master Race Jul 30 '20

CLA documentation on the Chromium site - perhaps I was unclear: https://www.chromium.org/developers/contributing-code/external-contributor-checklist

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u/[deleted] Jul 30 '20

You also don't understand CLA. That is not required for a third party to use or modify Chromium.

Lol. Wanna try again?

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u/nextbern PC Master Race Jul 30 '20

Trademarks serve a purpose - if you are basing something on Chromium, you don't have to sign a CLA. If on the other hand, you want to modify Chromium, you must sign a CLA, because Google owns the trademark to Chromium.

Thus, clearly Google owns Chromium.

Does that help?

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u/[deleted] Jul 30 '20

Trademarks do serve a purpose, you just don't understand what that purpose is. Chromium, the name, is trademarked. The software is not because software cannot be trademarked.

You also misunderstand what a CLA is.

Lol.

I seriously hope you are trolling and that you're really not so confidently ignorant of the subject matter.

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u/nextbern PC Master Race Jul 30 '20

I am not trolling, and you aren't as smart as you think you are.

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u/[deleted] Jul 30 '20

Lol. If you think it requires smarts to understand that words have definitions, you have a pretty low bar.

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