Re: cowsay could attract copyright and trademark enforcement action

Leo Famulari writes: > On Sun, Jul 11, 2021 at 10:56:33PM -0400, Bone Baboon wrote: >> cowsay has many questionable files that could attract copyright and >> trademark enforcement action. > > I doubt it. Many of these files have been in the cowsay source code > since 1999 (apparently), and at leas

Re: cowsay could attract copyright and trademark enforcement action

Pretty sure copyright owners lose the right to enforce if they let the infringement go for too long, ianal.

Re: cowsay could attract copyright and trademark enforcement action

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

Re: cowsay could attract copyright and trademark enforcement action

Am Donnerstag, den 15.07.2021, 13:06 +0200 schrieb Leo Prikler: > Am Mittwoch, den 14.07.2021, 09:57 -0400 schrieb Bone Baboon: > > [...] > > > > In this response to the pull request I submitted about the > > questionable files in the cowsay repository > > < > > https://github.com/tnalpgge/rank-am

Re: cowsay could attract copyright and trademark enforcement action

Am Donnerstag, den 15.07.2021, 13:06 +0200 schrieb Leo Prikler: > Am Mittwoch, den 14.07.2021, 09:57 -0400 schrieb Bone Baboon: > > [...] > > > > In this response to the pull request I submitted about the > > questionable files in the cowsay repository > > < > > https://github.com/tnalpgge/rank-am

Re: cowsay could attract copyright and trademark enforcement action

Can I be a little bit annoying here? I dabbled a lot in IP law, and the only thing I really learned is that what lay people like us think is probably not what lawyers have to say. I think it’s perfectly fine to just do nothing therefore. If an actual lawyer gets set on this package, it is early

Re: cowsay could attract copyright and trademark enforcement action

On 7/16/21 6:26 PM, Leo Prikler wrote:> As others point out, it is debatable whether or not such a trademark can be enforced, but what we should be discussing -- and I'd be more than happy to be wrong on this -- is whether or not the cowfiles can be distributed under GPL-compatible terms/in accor

Re: cowsay could attract copyright and trademark enforcement action

Fair points and well argued. Am Samstag, den 17.07.2021, 01:46 -0400 schrieb Philip McGrath: > On 7/16/21 6:26 PM, Leo Prikler wrote:> As others point out, it is > debatable whether or not such a trademark > > can be enforced, but what we should be discussing -- and I'd be > > more > > than happy