Your message dated Wed, 15 Jul 2020 21:36:50 +0000 with message-id <e1jvp58-0007ee...@fasolo.debian.org> and subject line Bug#963750: Removed package(s) from unstable has caused the Debian Bug report #959981, regarding Trademark issues with Chef/Cinc package included in Debian to be marked as done.
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--- Begin Message ---Package: chef Version: 15.8.25.3.gcf41df6a2-6 Severity: serious X-Debbugs-CC: la...@osuosl.org, maintain...@cinc.sh, be...@chef.io ----- Forwarded message from Lance Albertson <la...@osuosl.org> ----- Date: Thu, 7 May 2020 11:40:38 -0700 From: Lance Albertson <la...@osuosl.org> To: pkg-ruby-extras-maintain...@lists.alioth.debian.org, terce...@debian.org, ubuntu-m...@lists.ubuntu.com Cc: maintain...@cinc.sh, be...@chef.io Subject: Trademark concerns with Chef/Cinc package included in Debian and Ubuntu X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=0.5 required=3.0 tests=BAYES_00,DKIM_SIGNED, DKIM_VALID,HTML_MESSAGE,SPF_SOFTFAIL,URIBL_BLOCKED,URIBL_SBL, URIBL_SBL_A autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.2 Message-ID: <caorfjxt71acpczbblbwushh9+yxgfjqr639utlyx+5tkhus...@mail.gmail.com> 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 -- Lance Albertson Director Oregon State University | Open Source Lab ----- End forwarded message -----
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--- Begin Message ---Version: 15.8.25.3.gcf41df6a2-6+rm Dear submitter, as the package chef has just been removed from the Debian archive unstable we hereby close the associated bug reports. We are sorry that we couldn't deal with your issue properly. For details on the removal, please see https://bugs.debian.org/963750 The version of this package that was in Debian prior to this removal can still be found using http://snapshot.debian.org/. Please note that the changes have been done on the master archive and will not propagate to any mirrors until the next dinstall run at the earliest. This message was generated automatically; if you believe that there is a problem with it please contact the archive administrators by mailing ftpmas...@ftp-master.debian.org. Debian distribution maintenance software pp. Sean Whitton (the ftpmaster behind the curtain)
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