Comment 468 for bug 269656

kafpauzo
>The GPL does allow trademark restrictions. You'd need to find software that is published under a license that forbids trademark restrictions.

A licence can only declare rules (it can't forbid or restrict anything, except the authors of the licence). A licence can restrict only the author of the licence. Many software companies are abide by the satements of their licences. They can't restrict you from copying and modifying, but they are abide by their words: they will fulfill unfulfillable rules, either eternally pursuing pirates or breaking their rules by not pursuing pirates. Ironically, in the Middle Ages you could buy an indulgence, and now you can buy rights and say "all rights reserved", when no rights are really reserved.