Matt has been very clear that he's attempting to use the trademark as a bludgeon to get WP Engine to "give back" (whatever that means). There was no contract ah

Matt has been very clear that he's attempting to use the trademark as a bludgeon to get WP Engine to "give back" (whatever that means). There was no contract ahead of time that required anyone to give back, and the trademark policy has for more than a decade condoned WP Engine's usage as an explicit permission. All the written communication has always been in favor of WP Engine's rights to use all the IP exactly as they have been with no obligation to do anything, yet Matt has decided that he's owed something. Red Hat, meanwhile, puts a clause into a written contract that says that they will continue to provide support as long as you don't forward what they give you to other people. We can get into debates all day long about which one is truer to the "spirit of Open Source" or some such philosophical abstraction, but one of the two organizations we're talking about put their expectations for compensation into a detailed written contract and the other, to put it generously, didn't.