Comment by rhaway84773
3 years ago
No it’s not, because none of that is unique to an open source project. Anyone can come in and use those assets. Heck, that’s the whole point of open source.
The only thing that is unique to an open source project is its reputation, and the reputation is most strongly tied with its name and trademarks.
> Anyone can come in and use those assets.
That's not quite right: trademarks are different to copyright. Most open source licenses grant a copyright licenses, but not the trademark.
Over a decade ago there was a kerfuffle when Mozilla didn't approve of Debian's Firefox patchset and asserted that Debian couldn't use the name "Firefox" for the (still licensed for redistribution) source code Debian had. They had the rights to use, modify and redistribute the Firefox code - but not the name. For a while, the Mozilla browser was known as "IceWeasel" on Debian and Debian variants.