Hello all, I'd like to bring up an idea that I and the Fedora KDE SIG hope will be considered for the KDE SC 4.5 timeframe, namely the renaming of KBattleShip and KTron to names that do not conflict with active trademarks on the term "Battleship" (owned by Hasbro games)[1][2] and "Tron" (owned by Disney)[3] Now, as a German based project, I am not sure regarding the respect of US Trademark laws, but in the US this leads to problems for distributions bound to US Trademark laws (for example RHEL and Fedora, both associated with Red Hat, Inc, based in Raleigh, North Carolina; Ubuntu and Canonical are probably bound by them too, but I'm not sure that they respect these specific trademarks) in that we cannot ship applications with these names. For specific agreement with this from Fedora's Legal Team, please see comments 6 and 12 in [1]. Currently, Fedora and RHEL ship custom patches to rename these two applications KSinkShips and KSnakeDuel[4], respectively, but these are a major pain to refactor at each new release, and this is a fairly large patch to maintain. As such, the Fedora KDE team is requesting that the applications be renamed to something that does not possibly conflict with US trademarks on the games the kdegames packages are based on. Thanks everyone, Ryan Rix Fedora KDE Special Interests Group [1]: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=481507 [2]: http://tess2.uspto.gov/bin/showfield?f=doc&state=4003:q2gahm.3.10 [3]: http://tess2.uspto.gov/bin/showfield?f=doc&state=4001:uguoai.2.41 ([2] and [3] have various other trademarks owned on both for the implementations of the names and similar uses as we currently have) [4]: http://cvs.fedoraproject.org/viewvc/devel/kdegames/kdegames-4.3.85- trademarks.patch?revision=1.1&view=markup -- Ryan Rix Fedora KDE SIG Member, Phoenix AZ Ambassador, News KDE Beat writer New Mail address: phrkonaleash at gmail.com -> ry at n.rix.si !! http://hackersramblings.wordpress.com | http://identi.ca/phrkonaleash XMPP: phrkonaleash at gmail.com | MSN: phrkonaleash at yahoo.com AIM: phrkonaleash | Yahoo: phrkonaleash IRC: rrix at irc.freenode.net/#srcedit,#plugaz,#fedora-kde and countless other FOSS channels. -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 198 bytes Desc: This is a digitally signed message part. Url : http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/kde/attachments/20100122/b0d1705c/attachment.bin
