From: Bone Baboon <bone.baboon@disroot.org>
To: Bone Baboon <bone.baboon@disroot.org>
Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: cowsay could attract copyright and trademark enforcement action
Date: Fri, 16 Jul 2021 16:23:28 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87o8b2ovnj.fsf@disroot.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87mtqsjl3y.fsf@disroot.org>
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.
The pull request I opened that removed the questionable files on the
cowsay repository Guix uses was closed without being merged.
<https://github.com/tnalpgge/rank-amateur-cowsay/pull/4>
This pull request on a cowsay fork is still open.
<https://github.com/cowsay-org/cowsay/pull/16>
prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-07-16 20:27 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-07-12 2:56 cowsay could attract copyright and trademark enforcement action Bone Baboon
2021-07-14 13:57 ` Bone Baboon
2021-07-15 11:06 ` Leo Prikler
2021-07-16 22:26 ` Leo Prikler
2021-07-17 5:46 ` Philip McGrath
2021-07-17 6:39 ` Leo Prikler
2021-07-16 22:26 ` Leo Prikler
2021-07-17 1:42 ` Cees de Groot
2021-07-15 16:42 ` Leo Famulari
2021-07-16 12:39 ` Bone Baboon
2021-07-16 14:24 ` fuzzyTew
2021-07-16 20:23 ` Bone Baboon [this message]
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