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The other option is trademark enforcement. That's the approach Mozilla took when they were unhappy with how Debian was distributing their software: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mozilla_software_rebranded_by_...

Remember Iceweasel?



That requires you to register a trademark though.


Not necessarily, unregistered trademarks exist in the United States at least.

And regardless, I'd expect expect someone asked to stop using a given name & logo to be more willing to cooperate than someone told to stop packaging it entirely.




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