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    From Bone Baboon@21:1/5 to All on Mon Jul 12 05:50:01 2021
    cowsay has many questionable files that could attract copyright and
    trademark enforcement action. For further details see the pull
    requested linked below.

    Debian packages cowsay. The cowsay source code repository is <https://github.com/tnalpgge/rank-amateur-cowsay>.

    The cowsay repository's CONTRIBUTING.md says "Issues and pull requests
    on that repository will be ignored.". I submitted a pull request <https://github.com/tnalpgge/rank-amateur-cowsay/pull/4>. I expect that
    it will be ignored.

    There is a fork of cowsay <https://github.com/cowsay-org/cowsay> that
    claims to be maintained. I have submitted a pull request to it as
    well. <https://github.com/cowsay-org/cowsay/pull/16>

    The pull requests remove the questionable files.

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  • From Bone Baboon@21:1/5 to Bone Baboon on Wed Jul 14 16:10:02 2021
    Bone Baboon writes:

    cowsay has many questionable files that could attract copyright and
    trademark enforcement action. For further details see the pull
    requested linked below.

    Debian packages cowsay. The cowsay source code repository is <https://github.com/tnalpgge/rank-amateur-cowsay>.

    The cowsay repository's CONTRIBUTING.md says "Issues and pull requests
    on that repository will be ignored.". I submitted a pull request <https://github.com/tnalpgge/rank-amateur-cowsay/pull/4>. I expect that
    it will be ignored.

    There is a fork of cowsay <https://github.com/cowsay-org/cowsay> that
    claims to be maintained. I have submitted a pull request to it as
    well. <https://github.com/cowsay-org/cowsay/pull/16>

    The pull requests remove the questionable files.

    In this response to the pull request I submitted about the
    questionable files in the cowsay repository <https://github.com/tnalpgge/rank-amateur-cowsay/pull/4#issuecomment-878092487> apjanke is requesting feedback.

    If there are any actual IP lawyers, relevant IP owners, or
    distributions who redistribute cowsay who would like to weigh in on
    this, I'd definitely like to hear what you have to say.

    For those who want to respond to apjanke but do not have or do not
    want to use a GitHub account I can link this email thread in the
    discussion about the pull request.

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