WikiCommunityMark
Revision as of 22:12, 4 June 2007 by PeterKaminski (talk | contribs) (Created description of CommunityMark and included links to Messina and Hecker posts)
A community mark is an alternative to trademark for community-based projects. The need for Community Marks stems from the non-commercial focus of these projects and the way these projects spread virally on the web. While we need to protect the integrity of the community brand, licensing and legal enforcement is too costly in terms of time and money to make sense for loosely joined communities. Therefore, we leave enforcement up to the community via the Community Marks denotation. (Lightly edited by PeterKaminski from ChrisMessina's Case for Community Marks.)
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