Kenneth Auchenberg: Well done! I hope that Volkswagen tries to sue you for trademark infringement and totally embarrasses themselves by bringing even more attention to their scandal, then gets slapped down and you can sue them back for wasting the court's time.

Volkswagen should be a generic term for cheater, just like Kleenex is a generic term for tissue.

That's it!

I'd actually be happy if the name was changed ASAP, as it took me a couple minutes to figure out that the package was not an actual Volkswagon project. I thought the repo was extracted code from some official testing product.

You thought it was a Volkswagen project named "volkswagen"?

Before I clicked the link I thought it would go to a Github repo owned by Volkswagen showing they had written code to forcibly pass CI tests. It's not clear from the title that it's not actually talking about VW the company.

so I wasn't the only one who thought this and grew concerned for the author-a legal battle with a giant corporation can ruin you financially I really hope he/she took good defensive measures.

No, I thought it was a repo containing code extracted unofficially from something Volkswagen did.

This no legal advice, but in the USA to make a Satire you should be able to use the VW name. The same way the Silicon Valley series uses real company names on their episodes.

Using the VW logo as "satire" would be a stretch.

Not safe from being forced to respond to a lawsuit though — even if you ultimately win.

More so for using it in way that makes it technically correct to say that "Volkswagen detects when your code is only being tested and then makes it pass."

.. to Very Winterkorny Streisand, or short VW Streisand? ;)