On Fri, Oct 15, 2004 at 17:50:12 +0200, Jocobo Tarrio wrote: > IOW, nowhere in the DFSG says something like "you cannot restrict the > user's right to have their modified copies of the software called in the > same way as the original". In fact, there's one place (DFSG #4) where it > says just the opposite :-)
However, trademarks can cover much more than just the name of a package. It could conceivably be a great deal of work to search and destroy every necessary mark in a package if one changes that package in a way the trademark holder doesn't like. -- paul