>>>> Richard Fontana <rfontana(a)redhat.com> writes:
I am not sure if this should be acceptable for Fedora. My concern is
that the "UW" naming prohibition is unreasonably restrictive. Does
anyone have thoughts on this?
Naming can be difficult, but I believe we've long accepted clauses
forcing renaming. A license saying "don't use our name in your new
name" seems reasonable even if your name is just a few letters (like
"IBM" or "UW"). It is technically restricting a freedom but not in
any
way that seems meaningful.
Where I think it gets sticky is if a license were to prevent renaming,
or maybe to specify the name to be used for modified versions. A more
difficult corner case would be something like "must not start with the
letter 'a'" or "must sort higher alphabetically".
- J<