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GPL doesn't apply to trademarks, which are still the property of the company (Sun/now Oracle), just like Firefox is a trademark owned by Mozilla Foundation. Yo

by vladd 16y ago

GPL doesn't apply to trademarks, which are still the property of the company (Sun/now Oracle), just like Firefox is a trademark owned by Mozilla Foundation. You can fork the code and make your own brand with it, but unless you offer something different, good luck in trying to get JohnDoe to install, say, MariaDB instead of MySQL or YourOffice instead of OpenOffice.

Maro 16y ago
It's funny that the examples you provided, although they look like foo, are actual forks. MariaDB was initiated by the original Mysql author, too.
- cmelbye 16y ago
  I think he realizes that.
  - Maro 16y ago
    I know, but others might not, so I pointed it out. For example I didn't know about YourOffice and it certainly sounded like foo, I had to look it up.