[OSM-talk] openmaps.eu

[Nick Whitelegg]

>> Hmm, no one thought of registering "Open Maps" as a trademark as well 
as 
>> "OpenStreetMap"?

>What makes you think that if OpenStreetMap is a term deemed to general 
>to work as a trademark, Open Maps would somehow work?

In any case, we are supposed to be open. Trying to trademark names merely 
similar to our own is one of the most closed, monopolistic actions that 
it's possible to take. The idea of OSM is to collect and make available 
free data, not to act as a monopoly and go after similar projects.

Nick