Bug#832613: kronatools_2.7+dfsg-1_amd64.changes REJECTED

[Ian Jackson <ijackson@chiark.greenend.org.uk>]

Andreas Tille writes ("Re: kronatools_2.7+dfsg-1_amd64.changes REJECTED"):
> On Thu, Dec 15, 2016 at 10:00:10PM +0000, Thorsten Alteholz wrote:
> > according to [1] it is even a word mark, so I don't think it is a good 
> > idea to let anything related to diagnostic software with krona in its 
> > name into the archive.
> 
> 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.  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.

> 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.

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).

radiant-diagnostic or something maybe ?  (I see there is also a Ruby
CMS called "radiant".)

Ian.

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