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Re: Opensource.com Zsh article

TJ Luoma wrote on Fri, 20 Sep 2019 01:01 +00:00:
> On Thu, Sep 19, 2019 at 8:07 PM Ray Andrews <rayandrews@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> > No malice it's just that you can't imagine Tim Cook asking you guys for permission to change
> > something. I wonder how that would play out.
> 
> The history of Apple's previous interactions with open source projects
> would suggest this is unlikely.
> 
> KHTML is probably the biggest example, and they contributed to it for
> awhile, but when they wanted to make their own version they forked it
> and gave it a different name (WebKit).

To elaborate on that: if Alice maintains an open source product and Bob
forks it, trademarks law requires that Bob rename the product before he
may distribute it.
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