Seems like someone might be too smart for their own good.
Consider how unlikely it is for rigorous Debian and OSI to both miss this for 20 years. There's a difference between copyright and trademark licenses.
There's dozens of discussions/findings one might want to catch up on before concluding to know it. TLDR: It's confusing but proper "free software" upon close examination. Legacy confusion is worth fixing, but legally hard. Maybe one day.