Re: cowsay questionable files

[Bone Baboon]

Bone Baboon writes:

> cowsay has many questionable files that could attract copyright and
> trademark enforcement action.  
> <https://directory.fsf.org/wiki/Talk:Cowsay>
>
> The cowsay 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>
>
> These pull request 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.