Trademark issues with Chef/Cinc in Focal
Bug #1877462 reported by
Lucas Kanashiro
This bug affects 2 people
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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Chef |
Fix Released
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Unknown
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chef (Ubuntu) |
Invalid
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Critical
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Unassigned |
Bug Description
The chef source package included in Focal actually contains the Cinc project [1] which is a community fork trying to comply with the Chef Trademark Policy [2].
A Cinc project member approached Debian to raise a concern about the Trademark issues regarding the chef package in Debian unstable and Ubuntu Focal [3]. In Debian, the maintainer is considering its removal from the archive and maybe package Cinc from scratch.
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[2] https:/
[3] https:/
Changed in chef (Ubuntu): | |
importance: | Undecided → Critical |
Changed in chef: | |
status: | Unknown → New |
Changed in chef: | |
status: | New → Fix Released |
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A package name in the archive and the names of programs on the filesystem are functional elements (the first is referenced in dependencies and impacts installability, the second is referenced in scripts and impacts runtime behavior) and I do not believe these to be covered by trademarks. If these uses of the word "chef" fall under fair use as I believe, then there is no conflict with Chef's trademark policy (as we are not trading on this name, using it in our advertising, etc).
The report of the issue appears not to come from a representative of Chef Software, Inc.
I do not believe there is any action to be taken on the package in the focal release based on this report.