alt Hacker NewsThe Trademark is for WordPress, not WP. The name "WP Engine" isn't the alleged problem, it's their usage in their hosting packages like "WordPress Core".
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From the WordPress Trademark Policy (https://wordpressfoundation.org/trademark-policy/)
The abbreviation “WP” is not covered by the WordPress trademarks, but please don’t use it in a way that confuses people. For example, many people think WP Engine is “WordPress Engine” and officially associated with WordPress, which it’s not. They have never once even donated to the WordPress Foundation, despite making billions of revenue on top of WordPress.
Someone should have stopped him from making the rambling statements he's made.
If it's a trademark dispute, limit the the public statements to the trademark issue. Don't muddy the waters with demands for revenue share or upstream code contributions.
Ok so if they changed their plans to "Core" and said "Includes vanilla WordPress" is Ma.tt going to have an issue with it?
This really doesn't seem to be much about Trademarks, but more like what every other open source project complains about, that someone ELSE made a ton of money from the open source project, not them (even though that someone else is following the original license).
Couldn't they have just changed the license to WP? It wouldn't have affected most customers.