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>I'm not sure the GPL allows you to fork something under the same name though, right? Copyright law still lets you own the name of your project?

Trademarking the name of your project is considered incompatible with Free Software by a number of people. It's one of the issues that lead to the creation of Iceweasel, after Mozilla Corporation told Debian to stop distributing their builds of Firefox[1]. The issue also resulted in RMS telling people not to use Firefox.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iceweasel



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