Comment by kube-system

> If I fork a repo on GitHub and the name of the project is trademarked, have I committed trademark violation?

If you purport that you are that project, then yes.

Trademark is a consumer protection law that protects people from misrepresentation -- when you buy a Coca Cola you know it is the Coca Cola.

If there is any confusion that [x] software port is from the same original author of [x], it is trademark infringement.

> what even is the point of open source if you can't do that?

Open source is about sharing the code itself -- it is not about misrepresenting who wrote it. There is a very clear line between the two.