Bug#832613: Trademark issues (Was: kronatools_2.7+dfsg-1_amd64.changes REJECTED)
Hi,
I re-uploaded now with name radiant as suggested by upstream.
Kind regards
Andreas.
On Sun, Jan 15, 2017 at 06:39:51PM +0100, Andreas Tille wrote:
> 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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