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by melony 1480 days ago
And it is perfectly within upstream's rights to deny trademark and send a C&D to downstream.
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[Was the parent edited? I could swear it said "deny copyright".]
License is not the same as trademark, and most licenses do not grant trademark. You can distribute but you have to do it under a different name or brand (should upstream choose to enforce). All the people downvoting need to take a class on how IP laws work.

C.f. Iceweasel