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"eventually create a truly free alternative for NPM." Which will either comply with copyright laws, or get blasted off the 'netz and break everyone's build...

by al2o3cr 11y ago

"eventually create a truly free alternative for NPM." Which will either comply with copyright laws, or get blasted off the 'netz and break everyone's build... The rules are messed up, but dramatic gestures and abstract hopes that "free software will save us" aren't going to fix them.

gojomo 11y ago
This is a trademark dispute, not a copyright dispute. (And since Kik the company doesn't market a product in the field of command-line programmer tools, whether they have a legitimate case is arguable.) There are other distribution architectures, both organizational and technical, which would be more resistant to IP claims, especially frivolous ones.
- pygy_ 11y ago
  Trademark fields are broad AFAIK. "Digital stuff" is a single category, and both kik the messenger and azer's kik fall there.
  - dublinben 11y ago
    They also require consumer confusion. I don't know how you could confuse a communications app for a javascript module.