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Re:I've Just Liberated My Modules by profmonocle on Tuesday March 22, 2016 @08:30PM (#11341125)
> There are no legal claims to be made over NPM package names.

Why not? An NPM package name is the name of a piece of software, and software names are very much covered under trademark law.

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Re:I've Just Liberated My Modules by jsprogrammer on Tuesday March 22, 2016 @08:47PM (#11341229)
An NPM package name is just what NPM scraped from a package.json file.
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Re:I've Just Liberated My Modules by profmonocle on Tuesday March 22, 2016 @09:18PM (#11341379)
The technical details of how package names enter their system aren't really relevant from a legal point of view.
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Re:I've Just Liberated My Modules by jsprogrammer on Wednesday March 23, 2016 @02:57AM (#11342610)
I believe that is what I said.

> There are no legal claims to be made over NPM package names.

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