On Tuesday, May 01, 2007 12:50 am Wart wrote: > It was recently brought to my attention[1] that the bsd-games package > contains 'tetris-bsd', a curses-based tetris clone. This was an > oversight on my part, because if I had paid closer attention during the > review I would have stripped the name 'tetris' and replaced it with > something less objectionable. Now that I know, I'll do that anyway. > > But the bug report is claiming that all tetris clones are illegal and > should be removed, not just the name 'tetris'. What is the legal status > of tetris (and other game) clones? Can we get some "official" word from > a legal department on what is and isn't allowed? > > --Wart > [1]https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=238526 IANAL, but it is generally not possible to claim copyright over a game, so only the title would be in a state of legal violation (as the term Tetris is a registered trademark). -- Please avoid sending me Word or PowerPoint attachments. See http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
