See lots of older discussions. e.g. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40490836 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40490836 My understanding, no guarantees

See lots of older discussions. e.g. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40490836 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40490836 My understanding, no guarantees: Ian founded Freenet and after some time effectively abandoned it, while it was further developed by multiple volunteers in an active community. About 20 years later, he created a new project named locutus and renamed it to Freenet, forcing the existing and active community to abandon that name, without asking them. They chose the new name hyphanet by the way. This was possible because the name belonged to some Freenet foundation all along, which also had apparently lost contact to the active community.