[DRE-maint] Trademark concerns with Chef/Cinc package included in Debian and Ubuntu

[benny Vasquez]

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 <lance at osuosl.org> 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
>


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