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Maybe I'm confused. Which law would you presume was violated? Did Django violate the same law when it was named Django? Did Python violate that same law?

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The issue is that Tony Iommi is a live person, so using his name can give the impression that he endorses or is in some way associated with the product. Django Reinhardt died in 1953 and thus cannot endorse a product 50 years later. Monty Python is not a person.

Monty Python was at the time a group of people (seems worse than a single person), and afaik also a trademark (also seems worse).

But yea, maybe Python made a legal gamble that just happened to work out. I am not a lawyer :shrug:

I don't think anyone is under the impression that Tony Iommi is promoting a web framework.

Why not? After all, he's promoting a perfume: https://www.nordstrom.com/s/tony-iommi-monkey-special-parfum...

Having spent a lifetime around hessians, I can't imagine a product I want less.

I honestly doubt he's promoting it after seeing it :P Sounds more like his record company could smell money.

The ultimate test of this would be to name the next thing Kardashian.

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