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Re: cowsay could attract copyright and trademark enforcement action
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Bone Baboon |
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Re: cowsay could attract copyright and trademark enforcement action |
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Wed, 14 Jul 2021 09:57:19 -0400 |
Bone Baboon writes:
> cowsay has many questionable files that could attract copyright and
> trademark enforcement action. For further details see the pull
> requested linked below.
>
> Guix packages cowsay. /gnu/packages/games.scm says that the source code
> repository used is <https://github.com/tnalpgge/rank-amateur-cowsay>.
> In that repository's CONTRIBUTING.md it says "Issues and pull requests
> on that repository will be ignored.". I submitted a pull request
> <https://github.com/tnalpgge/rank-amateur-cowsay/pull/4>. I expect that
> it will be ignored.
>
> I have also found a fork of cowsay
> <https://github.com/cowsay-org/cowsay> that claims to be maintained.
> I have submitted a pull request to it as well.
> <https://github.com/cowsay-org/cowsay/pull/16>
>
> It would be good to have this issue addressed upstream. I have just
> submitted these pull requests. I will provide an update if either pull
> request is merged (modified or unmodified). If neither repository makes
> any changes to address these questionable files then it may make sense
> for Guix to patch the cowsay package.
In this response to the pull request I submitted about the
questionable files in the cowsay repository
<https://github.com/tnalpgge/rank-amateur-cowsay/pull/4#issuecomment-878092487>
apjanke is requesting feedback.
> If there are any actual IP lawyers, relevant IP owners, or
> distributions who redistribute cowsay who would like to weigh in on
> this, I'd definitely like to hear what you have to say.
For those who want to respond to apjanke but do not have or do not
want to use a GitHub account I can link this email thread in the
discussion about the pull request.
Re: cowsay could attract copyright and trademark enforcement action, Leo Famulari, 2021/07/15
Re: cowsay could attract copyright and trademark enforcement action, Bone Baboon, 2021/07/16