<div dir="ltr"><div>I have admittedly limited knowledge on the topic, but I'll take a stab at explaining it.</div><div><br></div><div>- 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"</div><div><a href="https://tsdr.uspto.gov/#caseNumber=87773109&caseSearchType=US_APPLICATION&caseType=SERIAL_NO&searchType=statusSearch" target="_blank">https://tsdr.uspto.gov/#caseNumber=87773109&caseSearchType=US_APPLICATION&caseType=SERIAL_NO&searchType=statusSearch</a><br></div><div>- The contributors to the AllStarLink Github repo are not AllStarLink Inc: <a href="https://github.com/pttlink/Asterisk/graphs/contributors" target="_blank">https://github.com/pttlink/Asterisk/graphs/contributors</a></div><div>- (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.</div><div><br></div><div>Tom KD7LXL</div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Wed, Dec 30, 2020 at 7:58 PM Steve Zingman <<a href="mailto:szingman@gmail.com" target="_blank">szingman@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
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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.<br>
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Steve N4IRS<br>
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<div>why can't we all be friends and work together?</div>
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<div> 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.<br>
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