Hi, I was wondering why the game crack-attack was in that other repo instead of in FE. So I asked the other repo, I got a reply pointing to this post: https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-extras-list/2005-April/msg00727.html Which talks about the Tetris trademark. I however do not see how thats an issue as the name crack attack does not seem to use the word Tetris. Now the game play / mechanics may be copied from Tetris Attack, but that is not a problem (IANAL). game play / mechanics cannot be trademarked or copyrighted *. What could be a problem is if the game had copied more then only game mechanics, for example have very similar graphics, identical levels (not relevant here as the levels are not mazes or something similar), etc. Thus I've comapred some screen shots. Here are screenshots from the Trademarked Nintendo original: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Tetris_Attack_box_art.jpg http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Lakitu_Tetris_Attack.png And here are those from crack-attack: http://www.nongnu.org/crack-attack/screenshots.html http://www.aluminumangel.org/attack/index.html#screen%20shots Now that seems like original graphics to me. So I would like to reopen the discussion about including crack-attack into FE. I assume there will be objections, if so with arguments please. If there are no objections I'll coordinate moving it to FE with that other repo and submit it for review. Regards, Hans * For more on the copyrightable status of game mechanics see: http://www.copyright.gov/fls/fl108.html . Also keep in mind that many commercial games are essential remakes of older games with better graphics, luckily game mechanics cannot be copyrighted (IANAL). -- fedora-extras-list mailing list fedora-extras-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-extras-list
