Re: Trademark issues (Was: kronatools_2.7+dfsg-1_amd64.changes REJECTED)
Hi again,
I admit I feel a bit blocked. Should I simply upload with another
possibly improperly choosen name and wait for ftpmaster comments to the
upload in new? It seems this topic does not deserve any additional
input and thus I might take this potential detour without further
discussion. :-(
Kind regards
Andreas.
On Fri, Dec 16, 2016 at 09:21:06PM +0100, Andreas Tille wrote:
> Hi Ian,
>
> On Fri, Dec 16, 2016 at 12:43:37AM +0000, Ian Jackson wrote:
> > Andreas Tille writes ("Re: kronatools_2.7+dfsg-1_amd64.changes REJECTED"):
> > >
> > > Thanks for your torough checking. As discussed long ago[2]
> > >
> > > "KronaTools" may work, since the actual trademark is just
> > > "Krona". You could also use "Radiant", which was the original name
> > > (and still in SourceForge with a redirect). We avoided Radiant so
> > > our name could be trademarked, but you wouldn't have that problem
> > > I'm guessing.
> >
> > The upstream you are dealing with, here, clearly don't really
> > understand trademarks very well.
>
> ... which makes a perfect match between me and upstream. I naively
> assumed that the argument given by upstream should be valid to combine
> two quite generic words is something else than a trademarked word.
>
> > If "krona" is trademarked (and that
> > DHS page claims it is) then "kronatools" would clearly be a breach.
> >
> > You'll have to call it something without the word "krona" in.
>
> I simply have to trust your insight here.
>
> > > It would help to hear other opinions before trying another upload to
> > > new: What name do you think is a proper name for this project in Debian.
> >
> > I haven't been able to figure out what this program does. Your links
> > don't give your own Description and the upstream say:
> >
> > Krona Tools is a set of scripts to create Krona charts from several
> > Bioinformatics tools as well as from text and XML files.
>
> The ITPed package description reads:
>
> Description: explore hierarchical metagenomic data with zoomable pie charts
> Krona allows hierarchical data to be explored with zoomable pie charts.
> Krona charts include support for several bioinformatics tools and raw
> data formats. The charts can be viewed with a recent version of any
> major web browser.
>
> The Wiki page[1] has some enlightening examples.
>
> > Either this is circular, or "Krona chart" was a medical (or
> > medico-informatical) term before this software existed and it
> > shouldn't have been trademarked (although I doubt anyone wants to
> > fight that).
>
> I do not think that there was an older term before that should have
> preventing the trademark (and even if I personally would not midn
> fighting these horrible law fights).
>
> > radiant-diagnostic or something maybe ? (I see there is also a Ruby
> > CMS called "radiant".)
>
> I think radiant-graphs might come closer even if I doubt that there is
> much confusion between the CMS and this tool and if its not packaged
> there should be no clash.
>
> I'd like to hear a word from ftpmaster if I rename the source and binary
> package as well as the Git archive - would this be accepted for the next
> upload. Some kind of confirmation in advance would be helpful to do
> more negotions right now and not after another round in the new queue.
>
> Kind regards
>
> Andreas.
>
> [1] https://github.com/marbl/Krona/wiki
>
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