How to refer to this software as a package name in downstream distributions?

[Dimitri John Ledkov]

After reading https://github.com/microsoft/go?tab=readme-ov-file#trademarks I am not sure how to best package this edition of patches, and make it not confusing.

Because current name based of URL github-microsoft-go has like 3 trademarks =)

Would the below be acceptable usage?

name: go-msft-1.22
description: "golang toolchain with https://github.com/microsoft/go patches"

When packaged in WolfiOS see https://github.com/wolfi-dev ?

If above is not acceptable, maybe i can use a codename like "gaufre" (which is french word for gopher ;-))

[Davis Goodin]

name: go-msft-1.22
description: "golang toolchain with https://github.com/microsoft/go patches"

I brought this up with others from the microsoft/go team and we think that name and description is fine (it's within the guidelines). Something like "golang toolchain with patches/enhancements from Microsoft" would also be fine.

In case you hadn't noticed already, we release already-patched Go source tar.gz files in our GitHub releases. Those feed into the Azure Linux build system. Taking the patch files directly is also fine of course, especially if you don't want to take all of them. 🙂

[Dimitri John Ledkov]

Something about xz tarballs downloaded from github is treated as fishy in 2024 =))))))) so will prefer git checkout. Thank you for your response.