Somebody begun to "protest the Drupal Trademark policy [...] yet the policy requires sites, like this, to pay to use the trademarked name in various areas such as website domain names". Now, this not true. The trademark policy has been created with lots of feedback from the community and I for myself strongly support it, does allow free usage of the word Drupal if "You exclusively use the Drupal trademark to either extend or improve the Drupal software, or to encourage the use of the Drupal software (in short "foster the Drupal software"). So my blog is fine for example. If I were to create drupalecommerce.com selling Drupal-based e-commerce solutions then I would need to ask for a trademark license because the proceeds will be used to further my company's well being and not to help the Drupal community / software. Seems clear and fair to me. It is not about money but about protecting us from voltures grabbing valueable domain and product names. (I only wrote this post because the FUD began to spread to twitter and even IRC and I hate FUD.)

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