Re: Sourceforge

> On May 28, 2015, at 7:08 PM, Joshua D. Drake <jd@commandprompt.com> wrote:
>
> We don't have legal ability to restrict them period. We are BSD licensed. The best we can do is put up a PSA.

Today a coworker mused whether we could issue a C&D for misuse of trademark if it comes to that. Maybe?

> That said, SF doesn't have the traffic to harm us. I am not worried about it. We aren't a web browser or something
"users"would download (like Gimp). 

We came to the same conclusion at lunch today. I wondered aloud whether Oracle would ever extend their [shameful
practices][1]to MySQL, and someone pointed out that it’s probably only worthwhile to do so for apps likely to be
installedon end-user machines. Adware in server software is not going to pay off. 

I saw [at least one project][2] which retained control over its SF account but rather than deleting it just turned off
allread access. Might be a possibility. 

[1]: http://www.zdnet.com/article/oracle-extends-its-adware-bundling-to-include-java-for-macs/
[2]: https://twitter.com/OOLua/status/603908660264316928

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