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Old 04-15-2008, 12:13 PM
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Originally Posted by lschweiss View Post
I could see Microsoft even going so far as to threaten trademark lawsuits against any fork of Zimbra open source for using the Zimbra name that they would have acquired.
From the YPL:

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3.3 - This license does not grant You rights to use any party's name, logo, or trademarks,
except solely as necessary to comply with Section 3.2.
MS couldn't change the license if they wanted to. Now that the software has been released under this license, anyone who would modify the software would have the rights to use the logos/branding necessary to comply with the license.
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