[batuhanicoz]

I am an employee of Automattic, that's correct and public.

The problem is not the "WP" in their name but their specific usage of "WordPress" and "WooCommerce" on their website and marketing. You don't have to literally use the trademarked in your brand name for infringement. Legal threshold, AFAIK, is around 15% of the people thinking you are officially related to the owner or the licensees of the trademark.

https://automattic.com/2024/09/25/open-source-trademarks-wp-...

[Ukv]

The supposedly infringing quotes from WP Engine in Automattic's "Exhibit B" ("Increase website speed with the fastest WordPress hosting", etc.) are extraordinarily similar to what the Wordpress Foundation's trademark policy explicitly permits ("the world’s best WordPress themes") - and would be nominative use even if that were not the case.

[teaneedz]

I'm hoping that contributors balk and are willing to walk since the ramifications are way beyond just WP Engine within the FOSS community.