On 02/27/2016 11:45 PM, Matthias Bussonnier wrote: > Hi all, > > >> On Feb 27, 2016, at 14:21, Alexander Walters <tritium-l...@sdamon.com >> <mailto: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.
These are both fine. Although I don't see much confusion; there's bound to be hundreds of forks of CPython, if not already, then definitely once we move to GitHub. > 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/ Please no. There is absolutely no call using such a blunt instrument, just for a case of minor inconvenience. It could also be blown up into a PR disaster, probably rightly so. cheers, Georg _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
