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I had a project[1] that was named after a Pokemon. It was a mustache[2] parser so I named it Entei because he has a very fashionable mustache. I changed the name[3] to chevron because I didn't want to deal with Nintendo's lawyers. [1] https://github.com/noahmorrison/chevron [2] https://mustache.github.io/ [3] https://github.com/noahmorrison/chevron/commit/42a028f597171...
What happens when many repos by different Github users have the same pokémon's name?
Yeap, the one with most stars. I was thinking of getting most forks if say multiple repos with exact same number of stars, but I guess I was lazy.
I had a project[1] that was named after a Pokemon. It was a mustache[2] parser so I named it Entei because he has a very fashionable mustache. I changed the name[3] to chevron because I didn't want to deal with Nintendo's lawyers. [1] https://github.com/noahmorrison/chevron [2] https://mustache.github.io/ [3] https://github.com/noahmorrison/chevron/commit/42a028f597171...
If you're worried about lawyers, why change it to the name of one of the largest companies in the world?
And the term "chevron" was used in the game starship titanic, where I learned its meaning.
https://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/products/cloud-systems-managem...
I still can't take it seriously.
I can see it be amusing to have repos with pokemon names, but for practicality, I would have no idea what they are for by reading the name.
https://github.com/israelvicars/pkmn-go-emoji
@andyjiang / @lambtron was kind enough to add them to the emojipacks project:
[0] https://blogs.oracle.com/thejavatutorials/entry/why_is_swing...
Related: I had an evening project making a Pokémon Go icon set / emoji pack for Slack: https://github.com/israelvicars/pkmn-go-emoji @andyjiang / @lambtron was kind enough to add them to the emojipacks project: https://github.com/lambtron/emojipacks
I'm sorry but could someone explain to me the point of this? I can see it be amusing to have repos with pokemon names, but for practicality, I would have no idea what they are for by reading the name.
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In theory that's true, but in practice it gets used for that.
And if they do that, they commit a felony. That is, if it's actually a DMCA claim and if that DMCA claim is patently invalid (trademarks are not covered by copyright, so filing a DMCA claim on trademark grounds would be obviously invalid). Most of the time the things people call "DMCAs" aren't actual DMCA takedown requests, though. For example YouTube blocks a lot of content based on automated flagging which doesn't…
While I certainly agree that abusing DMCA notices is a bad thing, I have only ever seen a few really egregious filings get punished and even that was marginal. I'm honestly surprised that there hasn't been more pushback. I've seen some pretty idiotic filings...