List of trademarked open-source software
This is a list of free/open-source software whose names are covered by registered trademarks. As many countries provide some form of basic protection for unregistered (common law) trademarks, nearly any free or open-source software title May Be trademarked under common law. This list covers software whose trademarks are registered under a country's intellectual property body.
Name |
Trademark holder |
Date filed |
|---|---|---|
BitTorrent |
BitTorrent, Inc. |
September 12, 2004 |
Debian |
Software in the Public Interest |
November 7, 1997 |
DRBD |
LINBIT Information Technologies |
February 4, 2005 |
Ethereal |
Ethereal, Inc. |
March 10, 2003 |
Finnix |
Ryan Finnie |
August 17, 2006 |
FreeBSD |
FreeBSD Foundation |
July 6, 1994 |
GNOME |
GNOME Foundation |
February 7, 2002 |
ImageMagick |
ImageMagick Studio LLC |
November 27, 2003 |
KDE |
KDE e.V. |
September 1, 2003 |
Linux |
Linus Torvalds |
August 15, 1994 |
LSB |
Linux Foundation |
June 24, 2002 |
Mozilla Firefox |
Mozilla Foundation |
December 22, 2003 |
Mozilla Thunderbird |
Mozilla Foundation |
September 20, 2006 |
MySQL |
Oracle America |
July 6, 2001 |
NetBSD |
The NetBSD Foundation |
April 20, 2004 |
Nmap |
Insecure.Com LLC |
December 18, 2003 |
OpenOffice.org |
Oracle America |
October 15, 2006 |
Perl |
Yet Another Society |
January 27, 2005 |
pkgsrc |
The NetBSD Foundation |
July 6, 2004 |
Python |
Python Software Foundation |
May 5, 2005 |
Qt |
Nokia |
February 1, 2001 |
ReactOS |
ReactOS Foundation (Russia) |
February 20, 2008 |
Sendmail |
Sendmail, Inc. |
March 13, 1998 |
SpamAssassin |
Apache Software Foundation |
July 30, 2002 |
Subversion |
Apache Software Foundation |
February 13, 2006 |
Tor |
The Tor Project, Inc. |
May 3, 2007 |
TriSano |
Collaborative Software Initiative |
July 29, 2008 |
VNC |
RealVNC |
June 6, 2007 |
Wireshark |
July 10, 2006 (word mark) |
|
XFS |
Silicon Graphics, Inc. |
July 11, 2002 |