Other devils advocate: having *someone* park them, even if they're not the trademark holder, might be useful. If someone wants to go over what should be a relatively low bar to usurp the "holder", great. I'm thinking of the apple/android/angular/osx/ubuntu crop.
On Tue, Apr 11, 2017 at 4:41 AM, <[email protected]> wrote: > Playing devil's advocate here, do we put a value judgement on the content > of a module on pypi, even if that content is limited to a single function > that just prints? What does that mean for something like a 'metapackage' > (a package on pypi that has no content, and exists only to install other > modules - like a project that has been modularized into other packages on > pypi)? I think this should be handled on a case by case basis, where > someone else comes along wanting to use a name currently being used by one > of these obvious placeholders. > > That said, this looks sketchy, and I would not be shocked to find these > names being held hostage on some auction site somewhere. If that is the > case, burninate them. > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Distutils-SIG [mailto:distutils-sig-bounces+tritium- > > [email protected]] On Behalf Of Lele Gaifax > > Sent: Monday, April 10, 2017 7:10 PM > > To: [email protected] > > Subject: [Distutils] PyPI abuse > > > > Hi all, > > > > I know it's been debated here whether there should be some kind of > > filtering > > on uploaded packages on PyPI, but today someone, either an automated > > tool or a > > silly guy, started to upload dozens of "Xxx 0.1.0" where "Xxx" is some > > "surname", here is latest variant: https://pypi.python.org/pypi/ > Lykov/0.1.0 > > > > Is there something that can/should be done to stop it? > > > > Thank you, > > ciao, lele. > > -- > > nickname: Lele Gaifax | Quando vivrò di quello che ho pensato ieri > > real: Emanuele Gaifas | comincerò ad aver paura di chi mi copia. > > [email protected] | -- Fortunato Depero, 1929. > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Distutils-SIG maillist - [email protected] > > https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig > > _______________________________________________ > Distutils-SIG maillist - [email protected] > https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig >
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