[App_rpt-users] Response to the AllStarLink Board of Directors message from 29 December 2020

[Tom Hayward]

I have admittedly limited knowledge on the topic, but I'll take a stab at
explaining it.

- The AllStarLink Inc (not Jim Dixon) has registered a trademark for the
word "AllStar" for things related to "Transmission and delivery of amateur
radio voice and text signals via internet protocol"
https://tsdr.uspto.gov/#caseNumber=87773109&caseSearchType=US_APPLICATION&caseType=SERIAL_NO&searchType=statusSearch
- The contributors to the AllStarLink Github repo are not AllStarLink Inc:
https://github.com/pttlink/Asterisk/graphs/contributors
- (And here's where I'm making a guess...) To protect themselves from legal
action by AllStarLink Inc, the contributors to the open source software
have begun removing references to "AllStar" that could be a legal target,
including the naming of the Github organization.

Tom KD7LXL

On Wed, Dec 30, 2020 at 7:58 PM Steve Zingman <szingman at gmail.com> wrote:

> I have NOTHING to do with the politics of what is going on. I'm simply a
> user asking what happened to the AllStarLink repository. And, I'm still
> waiting for a answer.
>
> Steve N4IRS
>
> On 12/30/20 10:44 PM, Skyler F wrote:
>
> politics politics politics
>
> why can't we all be friends and work together?
>
>
> On Wed, Dec 30, 2020 at 6:52 PM Steve Zingman <szingman at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> I understand that, my question is why was it "moved" and not forked. I
>> setup the AllStarLink github account as part of AllStarLink. No matter what
>> pttlink does the resource is AllStarLink.
>>
>> Steve N4IRS
>>
>
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