<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=us-ascii"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class="">Hi all, <div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Feb 27, 2016, at 14:21, Alexander Walters <<a href="mailto:tritium-list@sdamon.com" class="">tritium-list@sdamon.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class="">Can we even ask github to pull it down and reasonably expect them to comply? Their entire model is built on everyone forking everyone else.<br class=""></div></blockquote><div><br class=""></div><div>Why the model is everyone forking, some of the help page of GitHub actually tell you to contact GitHub support, like if you desire to "detach" a fork. </div><div><br class=""></div><div>Every reasonable requests I made to GitHub and the few interactions I had with the support always went well. </div><div>This did include asking GitHub to contact user as their pages were confusing, and might be misleading others.</div><div><br class=""></div><div>So I would suggest </div><div><br class=""></div><div>1) asking GitHub to contact author, potentially forwarding him/her a message from this list asking him/her to bring that down or transfer the control to you.</div><div>That should be easy to do as it will not force GitHub to provide anyone with the emails of the the owner of python-git.</div><div><br class=""></div><div>2) in the case of no response from author ask politely GitHub that the repo is confusing for user, and ask what they can do about that.</div><div><br class=""></div><div>3) If still nothing can be done make a DMCA request. You can likely argue that the logo/name are used without PSF content. </div><div><a href="https://help.github.com/articles/dmca-takedown-policy/" class="">https://help.github.com/articles/dmca-takedown-policy/</a> </div><div><br class=""></div><div>This would likely have more impact if sent from someone part of <a href="https://github.com/python" class="">https://github.com/python</a></div><div><br class=""></div><div>-- </div><div>M</div><div><br class=""></div><div><br class=""></div><div><br class=""></div></div><br class=""></div></body></html>