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posted by takyon on Monday September 19 2016, @08:26PM   Printer-friendly
from the let's-rename dept.

Popular Bash shell script LetsEncrypt.sh, which is used to manage free SSL/TLS certificates from the Let's Encrypt project, has renamed this week to avoid a trademark row. This comes in the wake of Let's Encrypt successfully fending off Comodo, which tried to cynically snatch "Let's Encrypt" for itself.

LetsEncrypt.sh, written by Germany-based Lukas Schauer, is now known as Dehydrated. If you have scripts or apps that rely on pulling in his code and running it, they may stop working as a result of the name change. Dehydrated is developed independently by Schauer and is not officially affiliated with Let's Encrypt.

"This project was renamed from letsencrypt.sh because the original name was violating Let's Encrypt's trademark policy. I know that this results in quite a lot of installations failing but I didn't have a choice," reads the new Dehydrated README.

[...] Full disclosure: This article's author uses Let's Encrypt to provide HTTPS encryption for his personal websites. And you should use it too.

Our Previous Story: 800-Pound Comodo Tries to Trademark Upstart Rival's "Let's Encrypt" Name


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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday September 19 2016, @08:52PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday September 19 2016, @08:52PM (#403970)

    Ads. It is well known that HTTPS ads pay less for a variety of reasons.

  • (Score: 3, Interesting) by Pino P on Tuesday September 20 2016, @03:11AM

    by Pino P (4721) on Tuesday September 20 2016, @03:11AM (#404103) Journal

    Well known to whom, and from what source did they obtain this well knowledge?