Re: 'npm init django' works, maybe let's stop that?

2021-03-09 Thread 'Adam Johnson' via Django developers (Contributions to Django itself)
I re-submitted my proposal through the "contact the foundation" form ( https://www.djangoproject.com/contact/foundation/ ) since that is the only way I know of contacting the board. On Mon, 8 Mar 2021 at 08:09, Florian Apolloner wrote: > Mhm, I expected such an answer when I hit send :) I maybe

Re: 'npm init django' works, maybe let's stop that?

2021-03-08 Thread Florian Apolloner
Mhm, I expected such an answer when I hit send :) I maybe should have worded it better. While you are right, that ultimately this is an issue for the DSF board I think that most of those issues can be solved by asking authors/etc nicely without having to invoke the thread of trademarks or lawye

Re: 'npm init django' works, maybe let's stop that?

2021-03-08 Thread James Bennett
It's not really a discussion of whether "we" (this list) want something removed; how to enforce Django's trademark is purely the domain of the DSF. The DSF also has the ability to wave its ownership of the trademark around and hire lawyers in cases where people are reluctant to take something down,

Re: 'npm init django' works, maybe let's stop that?

2021-03-07 Thread Florian Apolloner
I am in favor of removing such a package. FWIW I have been contacting the authors of https://pypi.org/project/Django-2.2.19/ and https://pypi.org/project/Django-504/ as well a few weeks ago (their packages list before or next to Django when searching for Django on PyPI and might create some con

Re: 'npm init django' works, maybe let's stop that?

2021-03-07 Thread 'Adam Johnson' via Django developers (Contributions to Django itself)
I thought of this, but I also wanted to have the discussion out in the open before the decision that it’s a use of the trademark we want to stop. I guess we don’t have any other place for such a discussion? On Mon, 8 Mar 2021 at 00:05, James Bennett wrote: > Any time this happens, just notify th

Re: 'npm init django' works, maybe let's stop that?

2021-03-07 Thread James Bennett
Any time this happens, just notify the DSF Board; they're the ones with the legal standing to enforce the trademark. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django developers (Contributions to Django itself)" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop r

'npm init django' works, maybe let's stop that?

2021-03-07 Thread 'Adam Johnson' via Django developers (Contributions to Django itself)
It has been brought to my attention[1] that running 'npm init django ' works. This is due to the existence of a package called create-django on npm ( https://www.npmjs.com/package/create-django ). This package is 17 days old at time of writing. It starts a Python virtualenv, installs Django, and i