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Renaming OpenSUSE

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Re: Renaming OpenSUSE

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It's not a copyright issue, it's a trademark issue. Anything resembling the trademark can be considered an infringement, and it's up to a judge to decide what is.

Then it must be really completely different. Something like "ChameleonOS" would also infringe the trademark since that animal as logo for an OS is also protected?

IANAL, but if they went with ChameleonOS and their logo looked sufficiently different from any SUSE logos, they should be in the clear.
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