The Debian project, the non-profit organization SPI (Software in the Public Interest) and Debian.ch, which represents Debian in Switzerland, won a World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) case involving a debian.community domain that hosted a blog critical of the project and its contributors, as well as publicizing confidential discussions from the debian-private mailing list.
In contrast to the failed similar case initiated by Red Hat over the WeMakeFedora.org domain, the debian.community claims were upheld and the debian.community domain was transferred to the Debian project. Debian trademark infringement is cited as the formal motive for the transfer of the domain. The author of the debian.community site announced that he has registered a new site, "suicide.fyi", to continue publishing, where he will continue to publish criticism of Debian.
The debian.community and WeMakeFedora.org domains have been used by Daniel Pocock to post criticism of contributors to the Debian, Fedora, and Red Hat projects. Such criticism caused discontent among the participants, as it was perceived by some as personal attacks. In the case of the WeMakeFedora.org domain, the court determined that the activity on the site falls within the category of fair use of the trademark, since the name Fedora is used by the defendant to identify the subject of the site, and the site itself is non-commercial and its author does not try to pass it off as the work of Red Hat or mislead users.
Daniel Pocock was previously a Fedora and Debian maintainer and maintained a number of packages, but as a result of the conflict, he got into a confrontation with the community, began to troll some participants and publish criticism, mainly directed against the imposition of a code of conduct, interference with the community and promotion of various initiatives conducted by activists of the movement for social justice.
For example, Daniel tried to draw attention to the activities of Molly de Blanc, who, in his opinion, under the guise of promoting a code of conduct, was engaged in harassment of those who disagreed with her point of view and tried to manipulate the behavior of community members (Molly is the author of an open letter against Stallman) . For his caustic remarks, Daniel Pocock was banned from discussion forums or expelled from projects such as Debian, Fedora, FSF Europe, Alpine Linux and FOSDEM, but continued to attack on his sites.
Source: opennet.ru