On Thu, May 07, 2020 at 03:32:10PM -0400, benny Vasquez wrote: > Thanks, Lance! > > As he laid out, this packaged shipped as-is is a pretty serious violation > of our trademarks, and we'd like to see it addressed as soon as humanly > possible. > > On Thu, May 7, 2020 at 2:40 PM Lance Albertson <la...@osuosl.org> wrote: > > > All, > > > > I'm a member of the Cinc Project [1] which rebuilds and rebrands various > > Chef projects to comply with Chef Trademark Policy [2]. We have worked > > closely with Chef to ensure Cinc Client complies with this policy. > > > > A member of our community notified us today that it appears that Ubuntu > > [3] and Debian [4] are both including a package called "chef" which seems > > to pull in the Cinc source code but doesn't fully comply with the Chef > > Trademark Policy. We are concerned that this use of the Cinc Client in the > > manner it's currently presented will create an issue for us and you in the > > future unless this gets resolved quickly. > > > > Specifically, we are concerned with the following: > > > > 1. The package name should be cinc and not chef as Chef is trademarked and > > also causes users to think they are installing Chef when they are > > installing Cinc > > 2. The package should have proper attributions to include the Cinc Project > > including pointing any issues related to the package to our issue page, and > > not Chef > > 2. Running "chef-client" (or other similar commands) does not tell the > > user that it's actually using Cinc Client as our package does properly > > 3. All of the trademark renaming we did in our Cinc Client distribution > > seems to have been removed and retains all of the Chef related paths (i.e. > > /etc/chef when it should be /etc/cinc). This will cause confusion for users > > who are expecting Cinc. > > > > We would like to work with the Debian/Ubuntu maintainers to ensure you're > > following compliance and also ensuring our distribution works well on > > Debian/Ubuntu. However we also want to ensure you don't get into any legal > > trouble with Chef. I am sure most of these changes weren't done > > intentionally and was a mistake. > > > > Feel free to reach out to us via the #community-distros channel on the > > Chef Community Slack, or you can reach me directly via IRC on Freenode as > > "Ramereth". I've also cc'd Benny Vasquez who is a community manager at > > Chef who can answer any questions relating to this and provide any > > additional feedback. > > > > Thanks! > > > > [1] https://cinc.sh/ > > [2] https://www.chef.io/trademark-policy/ > > [3] https://packages.ubuntu.com/focal/chef > > [4] https://packages.debian.org/sid/chef
I am inclined to just remove chef from Debian as a way of fixing this. Maybe I will package cinc from scratch. That would be easier if there were proper source releases.
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