Hello!
I ran into an interesting problem with the Terminix package[1].
Upstream was sent a trademark infringement letter from a lawyer of
Terminix, a pest control company, asking upstream to rename the
project, which they did now.
(See [2] for details)
Aside from the issue whether the trademark actually is valid for
software as well, I wonder whether we should rename the project in
Debian for the Stretch release like upstream did.
If the claims are substantial, we might get a "don't use that name"
letter from the same company as well, since we'd be distributing
Terminix under it's old name, making this - kind of - an RC bug.
On the other hand, the software was released under the original name,
so maybe having it in Stretch under that name is fine?
I never faced this issue before, has something like this happened
already in the past?
Any advice on whether and how this should be resolved would be highly
appreciated!
If this trademark violation is equivalent to a RC bug, the only way it
could be solved would be switching to a new upstream release (patching
in a new name isn't really feasible, since the name is used pretty
much everywhere, from filenames to settings and strings in the code).
Cheers,
Matthias
[1]: https://packages.debian.org/sid/terminix
[2]: https://github.com/gnunn1/tilix/issues/815
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