trademarked

The license is stuck as GPL due to no copyright assignment (100% intentional!), though 'ansible' in context is trademarked.

If the name is trademarked, the trademark holder can try to prevent you from using it, and that has happened.

You can go the CentOS or Iceweasel way, download the source, replace trademarked stuff and distribute the compiled binaries.

Being trademarked doesn't really affect the meaning of a word once it's part of popular parlance - Kleenex, Band-Aid, Hoover, Google...

Because these logos depict their trademarked images, and the licensing that they'd offer would likely not allow use for any purpose.

We would need a verb that encompasses general infringement of laws that isn't trademarked.

Then augment it into something that probably isn't a word (and is both unlikely to be domain squatted and can easily be trademarked).

Anyone can refer to someone else's trademarked product name full stop.

Aren't your Eneloop's just trademarked top of the line NiMH cells?

And people had started building something called Programmable Array Logic (PALs) which was trademarked by AMD so folks also called them Gate Array Logic or GALs.

That's why there's GNU IceCat/IceWeasel - Firefox contains trademarked material.

Every API function name should have to be trademarked instead.

The sole purpose of Iceweasel is to not be subject to any restrictions (mozilla approval of changes) that may come with distributing trademarked "Firefox" software.

Please see Nominative Use (alt: "Nominative Fair Use"), which an affirmative defense that basically boils down to a party being directly allowed to make a competitive comparison between their product/service and another trademarked product/service.

You are right, Trademarked, you can't copyright names.