CNCF tells main NATS contributor Synadia that it's free to fork off

The Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) has filed a petition with the US Patent and Trademark Office to prevent Synadia from using the logo and domain for NATS, the open source messaging system. The move follows a decision by Synadia, the vendor behind most of the contributions to the server software, to change the …

[Doctor Syntax]

"a model similar to other mixed source software companies."

Isn't this a model which tends to lead to forks at the expense of the original?

[doublelayer]

Yes, and you could argue that merely adopting such a strategy is already forking the software since it is now diverging from what others used to contribute to and use in such a way that they may only choose one approach: paying or being allowed to use their own work in the way they want. These people have decided to add another level of stupid to the game, though. Most companies that do this have kept the trademarks and domains, so their version gets to keep name recognition. I must admit, I've never seen a company give those away before trying this before.