On: I've Just Liberated My Modules

[smt88]

As someone pointed out in another thread, you similarly couldn't name a package something like "facebook" even if Facebook had no API.

[jackielii → smt88]

there is a package called facebook: https://www.npmjs.com/package/facebook and it doesn't seem to be owned by facebook?

[spinlock → smt88]

facebook may be a bad example. they named themselves after a generic directory that many colleges have been giving out for decades.

[smt88 → spinlock]

See also: YellowPages.com, Salesforce.com, etc. Just because something exists in real life (and used to describe a non-digital version of the same thing) doesn't mean it can't then be trademarked.

[spinlock → smt88]

Sum had to change the name of its yellow pages application to nis because yellow pages is copy righted.

You don't seem to be very well informed.