Hi all, 

> On Feb 27, 2016, at 14:21, Alexander Walters <tritium-l...@sdamon.com> wrote:
> 
> Can we even ask github to pull it down and reasonably expect them to comply?  
> Their entire model is built on everyone forking everyone else.

Why the model is everyone forking, some of the help page of GitHub actually 
tell you to contact GitHub support, like if you desire to "detach" a fork. 

Every reasonable requests I made to GitHub and the few interactions I had with 
the support always went well. 
This did include asking GitHub to contact user as their pages were confusing, 
and might be misleading others.

So I would suggest 

1) asking GitHub to contact author, potentially forwarding him/her a message 
from this list asking him/her to bring that down or transfer the control to you.
That should be easy to do as it will not force GitHub to provide anyone with 
the emails of the the owner of python-git.

2) in the case of no response from author ask politely GitHub that the repo is 
confusing for user, and ask what they can do about that.

3) If still nothing can be done make a DMCA request. You can likely argue that 
the logo/name are used without PSF content. 
https://help.github.com/articles/dmca-takedown-policy/ 
<https://help.github.com/articles/dmca-takedown-policy/> 

This would likely have more impact if sent from someone part of 
https://github.com/python <https://github.com/python>

-- 
M




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