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. > > Debian packages cowsay. The cowsay source code repository is > <https://github.com/tnalpgge/rank-amateur-cowsay>. > > The cowsay repository's CONTRIBUTING.md 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. > > There is 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> > > The pull requests remove the questionable files.
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.
