It would not be fork when the original project (Python 2) is no longer developed. There are many cases of cooperative maintainership handover without name change and nobody cares.
I understand using trademark as an advantage in cases of a hostile fork, but if the original maintainer no longer plan to do any bugfixing then it seems like a dick move.
The original project (Python) is still developed however. If a handoff to some other team occurs and the new maintainers do a bad job this reflects negatively on Python 3.
I understand using trademark as an advantage in cases of a hostile fork, but if the original maintainer no longer plan to do any bugfixing then it seems like a dick move.