Trademark, domain name, GitHub repos stay under control of open source foundation – no word on any forking off for now

The Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) has reached an agreement with Synadia, the company behind open source messaging system NATS, which will see it control the trademark, domain name, and GitHub repositories.

The agreement follows a dispute over Synadia's decision to move its NATS code from the Apache 2.0 to Business Source License (BSL) in future releases.

The dispute saw CNCF file a petition with the US Patent and Trademark Office to prevent Synadia from using the logo and domain for NATS. At the same time, Synadia's lawyers told the Linux Foundation, which runs CNCF, that it intended to end its relationship with CNCF and expected to receive full control of the NATS.io domain and GitHub repositories.

Following productive discussions, the two organizations have agreed to "align expectations and reinforce open governance." Synadia will assign its two NATS trademark registrations to the Linux Foundation to secure ...