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What could be learned from this example that might enable companies in the future to leverage trademark instead of a license change to accomplish the same thing? So much damage could have been avoided if this had been resolved differently to begin with.


Change your name, not your license.


I think they are saying: trademark your product name (open source in this case), make sure it's used only as approved.

Altho i believe it does go back to the license attached to the product.


Source code license doesn't matter, Mozilla did this with Debian, that's why Iceweasel was a thing.




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