On 6/7/15, Griffin Boyce <[email protected]> wrote: > Fabio Pietrosanti (naif) - lists wrote: >> Given that there could be sketchy reasons to distribute Tor Browser >> unofficially and that Tor it's a copyright of Tor Project, shouldn't >> the >> Tor Project ask to SourceForge to act to: >> >> a) Or Remove those project >> >> b) Or ask to change name and remove any occurrence of "Tor" in the name >> of the projects, title, sub descriptions that may lead to misleading >> interpretation that "this is tor browser" > > > Andrew and others have asked for these to be taken down in the past. > Most listings are shady and likely contain malware. I contacted the > developer of the first listing last year [1] but he never responded. > While SourceForge might not care about malware*, large US-based > companies usually care about copyright and trademark violations (which > was a solid legal basis for Andrew to request takedown). > > I'm not super sure where to go from there though. This might be a > better question for Wendy Seltzer.
Thoughts: - contact Bradley Kuhn of the Software Freedom Conservancy - contact the Free Software Foundation (USA) - create competing "projects" on sourceforge - open a new account "torproject.org" and upload at least one TorBrowser binary - perhaps a stub which points the user to the official web page - write some software to auto-create "projects" on all the commercial sites out there, in a single hit, make your code libre licensed of course :) In fact, all existing projects on SourceForge ought (evidently) maintain their admin-ship of their existing project pages, just to ensure SF does not fuck them over. Sadly we live in a world of many financial, and other, predators. Do Not give up control of your SF or GitHub or __pick-a-commercial-entity__ project! If your project gets "mirrored" on one of these types of sites - set up your own project just to have an official presence on that site. This is a sad form of "digital thuggery" which ultimately may need a legislative fix - in the meantime, the consequence is more work for us (but hopefully minimal) who admin projects. Good luck, Zenaan -- tor-talk mailing list - [email protected] To unsubscribe or change other settings go to https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-talk
