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Blender Foundation Rule

Forks must be renamed

Catalog row in Vendor License Rules · Cited

Kind
Restriction
Statement
Forks of Blender should be given a new name; the policy says the GPL explicitly excludes brand names from the freedom.
Applies when
Publishing a Blender fork
Applies to
Forks of Blender
Related programs

Evidence 1

Forks must be renamed evidence
"Same goes for forks of the Blender software, give it a new name and create a unique brand that way. The latter is also enforced by the GNU GPL, which explicitly excludes brand names from the freedom."

Trademark Policy, introductionTrademark Policy — BlenderRetrieved 2026-10-08

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