bizarre copyright term on the usage of "Markdown"

fletcher / MultiMarkdown

Expanded perl version of John Gruber's original Markdown --- No longer under active development since MMD 3

http://fletcherpenney.net/multimarkdown/

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Closed Singwai closed 6 years ago

Singwai commented 7 years ago

Kind of bizarre, that a developer needs written permission to use the word "Markdown", if they fork this. LoL

Thanks.

fletcher commented 7 years ago

I don't follow you -- can you explain this?