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I guess it's a general MIT license problem. Somebody, be it Google, Apple or whoever else, can deliberately break your program and distribute it under the origi
by jojobas 3y ago
I guess it's a general MIT license problem. Somebody, be it Google, Apple or whoever else, can deliberately break your program and distribute it under the original name. And although you kinda own the name you really don't.
- justinclift 3y agoWouldn't the same problem happen with most other (if not all?) FOSS licenses?
- legulere 3y agoIt's not. You can do the same with GPL-licensed code. You can use trademark law in both cases to prevent people from distributing modified versions, like Firefox did for years with Debian https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Debian–Mozilla_trademark_dispute https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Debian–Mozilla_trademark_dispu...
- Retr0id 3y agoWould it be theoretically possible to counter this with a trademark? And then say (in legalese) "if you're just packaging it then I grant you permission to use the trademark, but if you fork it (or otherwise substantially modify it) then permission is revoked"
- jojobas 3y agoIt's not that simple. https://curl.se/docs/thename.html https://curl.se/docs/thename.html