Thanks, Lance! As he laid out, this packaged shipped as-is is a pretty serious violation of our trademarks, and we'd like to see it addressed as soon as humanly possible.
On Thu, May 7, 2020 at 2:40 PM Lance Albertson <[email protected]> wrote: > All, > > I'm a member of the Cinc Project [1] which rebuilds and rebrands various > Chef projects to comply with Chef Trademark Policy [2]. We have worked > closely with Chef to ensure Cinc Client complies with this policy. > > A member of our community notified us today that it appears that Ubuntu > [3] and Debian [4] are both including a package called "chef" which seems > to pull in the Cinc source code but doesn't fully comply with the Chef > Trademark Policy. We are concerned that this use of the Cinc Client in the > manner it's currently presented will create an issue for us and you in the > future unless this gets resolved quickly. > > Specifically, we are concerned with the following: > > 1. The package name should be cinc and not chef as Chef is trademarked and > also causes users to think they are installing Chef when they are > installing Cinc > 2. The package should have proper attributions to include the Cinc Project > including pointing any issues related to the package to our issue page, and > not Chef > 2. Running "chef-client" (or other similar commands) does not tell the > user that it's actually using Cinc Client as our package does properly > 3. All of the trademark renaming we did in our Cinc Client distribution > seems to have been removed and retains all of the Chef related paths (i.e. > /etc/chef when it should be /etc/cinc). This will cause confusion for users > who are expecting Cinc. > > We would like to work with the Debian/Ubuntu maintainers to ensure you're > following compliance and also ensuring our distribution works well on > Debian/Ubuntu. However we also want to ensure you don't get into any legal > trouble with Chef. I am sure most of these changes weren't done > intentionally and was a mistake. > > Feel free to reach out to us via the #community-distros channel on the > Chef Community Slack, or you can reach me directly via IRC on Freenode as > "Ramereth". I've also cc'd Benny Vasquez who is a community manager at > Chef who can answer any questions relating to this and provide any > additional feedback. > > Thanks! > > [1] https://cinc.sh/ > [2] https://www.chef.io/trademark-policy/ > [3] https://packages.ubuntu.com/focal/chef > [4] https://packages.debian.org/sid/chef > > -- > Lance Albertson > Director > Oregon State University | Open Source Lab > -- *benny Vasquez* — Community Manager Check out our Community-focused website <https://community.chef.io/>, or join us on Slack <https://community-slack.chef.io/>. me on Twitter <https://twitter.com/bennyvasquez> [image: https://chefconf.io] <https://chefconf.io> chef.io <http://www.chef.io/> Blog <https://blog.chef.io/> Facebook <https://www.facebook.com/getchefdotcom> Twitter <https://twitter.com/chef> Youtube <https://www.youtube.com/getchef> 619 Western Ave Suite 400, Seattle, WA 98104
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