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Re: Show HN: GitClassic.com, a fast, lightweight GitHub thin client (pages <14KB)

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Post by PufPufPuf »

dijksterhuis wrote: post #14
EE84M3i wrote: post #3

It might be prudent to double-check git's trademark policy. https://git-scm.com/about/trademark

> In addition, you may not use any of the Marks as a syllable in a new word or as part of a portmanteau (e.g., "Gitalicious", "Gitpedia") used as a mark for a third-party product or service. For the avoidance of doubt, this provision applies even to third-party marks that use the Marks as a syllable or as part of a portmanteau to refer to a product or service's use of Git code. > Please be aware that GitHub and GitLa…

So magit is also in breach?

Re: Show HN: GitClassic.com, a fast, lightweight GitHub thin client (pages <14KB)

#25

Post by Pay08 »

PufPufPuf wrote: post #23
dijksterhuis wrote: post #14

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> In addition, you may not use any of the Marks as a syllable in a new word or as part of a portmanteau (e.g., "Gitalicious", "Gitpedia") used as a mark for a third-party product or service. For the avoidance of doubt, this provision applies even to third-party marks that use the Marks as a syllable or as part of a portmanteau to refer to a product or service's use of Git code. > Please be aware that GitHub and GitLa…

So magit is also in breach?

Maybe since it's free and therefore not a "product", it's fine? But then you also have things like gitkraken, which is certainly a service.

Re: Show HN: GitClassic.com, a fast, lightweight GitHub thin client (pages <14KB)

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Post by nake89 »

zetanor wrote: post #4
bityard wrote: post #2

Github has been very anti-scraping lately, to the point that I can't even browse it in my browser's private mode. This seems to be impacting your implementation as well: "Well, that didn't work API rate limit exceeded for 18.220.172.92. Want 5,000 requests/hour instead of 60? Sign in for free to use your own GitHub API quota. Sign in with GitHub If you keep seeing this, open an issue" Update: Another try and it did w…

Golang is also "unmaintained" so you're in good company.

I had to go check. You're right: https://gitclassic.com/golang/go Made me chuckle. Then when I click it it doesn't explain why it is declaring it unmaintained. Pretty insulting. Not a good user experience at all.

Re: Show HN: GitClassic.com, a fast, lightweight GitHub thin client (pages <14KB)

#27

Post by seanhunter »

fc417fc802 wrote: post #19
dijksterhuis wrote: post #14

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> In addition, you may not use any of the Marks as a syllable in a new word or as part of a portmanteau (e.g., "Gitalicious", "Gitpedia") used as a mark for a third-party product or service. For the avoidance of doubt, this provision applies even to third-party marks that use the Marks as a syllable or as part of a portmanteau to refer to a product or service's use of Git code. > Please be aware that GitHub and GitLa…

That seems overly broad. Is there precedent for that?

That seems pretty normal to me. Try this thought experiment. Suppose I make an accessory that adds an ironing board to the back of F150 trucks[1] and I call my company “Fordboard”? Do you think that portmanteau is a trademark violation or not? I think Ford probably would fight and win against me if I did such a thing, in particular because I am using the registered mark (Ford) to refer to the actual thing so I can’t pretend that’s just a coincidence. That is also the case here with gitclassic. If I called my guitar shop that I might have more of a leg to stand on.

There’s more discussion of the legal aspects of portmanteau words here https://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2020/07/almost-everything-you-...

[1] I didn’t say it’s a good business idea, I came up with the portmanteau first.

Re: Show HN: GitClassic.com, a fast, lightweight GitHub thin client (pages <14KB)

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Post by fc417fc802 »

seanhunter wrote: post #27
fc417fc802 wrote: post #19

Earlier quoted context omitted.

That seems overly broad. Is there precedent for that?

That seems pretty normal to me. Try this thought experiment. Suppose I make an accessory that adds an ironing board to the back of F150 trucks[1] and I call my company “Fordboard”? Do you think that portmanteau is a trademark violation or not? I think Ford probably would fight and win against me if I did such a thing, in particular because I am using the registered mark (Ford) to refer to the actual thing so I can’t…

Well you aren't referring to a truck or even a vehicle. However I agree that your example product is intimately related to the trademarked item just as it is in this case. That's exactly why I'm wondering about precedent. It seems overly broad to me, a layman, but could well be the established status quo.

I would naively expect it to depend on whether the mark could reasonably be confused by a customer with the name in question. To that end fordboard and gitclassic seem problematic since they read like two separate words, one of which is the protected mark. In contrast, something like gitea seems like it ought to be in the clear - no one is ever going to think "git [space] ea huh wonder what ea by git is". (Ford should totally release a vehicle under the name Board that would be hilarious.)

> it is better when there is an overlap in the distinctive sound of the two words.

From the article you linked - this matches my intuition and is largely why I feel like gitea ought to be in the clear. Unfortunately it seems to be about trademarking portmanteaus as opposed to the creation of portmanteaus using one or more trademarks. (More is better - my next terrible idea is gitzurite.)

Re: Show HN: GitClassic.com, a fast, lightweight GitHub thin client (pages <14KB)

#29

Post by Paulo75 »

Pretty cool, one thing that would be useful: some kind of alerting or watch feature. Like "notify me if this repo's health score drops below X" or if a dependency gets a CVE. Would make it useful for teams that maintain a lot of open source dependencies.
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