Matthew Miller wrote: > On Tue, Aug 01, 2006 at 11:08:33PM +0200, Hans de Goede wrote: >> 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. > > Right. This hasn't stopped the owners of the rights to the original Tetris > game from suing people. They're probably wrong, but most people just cave to > avoid the hassle. > I know that the owners of the rights to the original Tetris are sue happy. I'm wondering what point you're trying to make here: that it is a good thing that crack-attack is not in FE because of this sue happines, or are you trying to say that indeed crack-attack should be fine for FE, but that the sue happiness worries you? Regards, Hans -- fedora-extras-list mailing list fedora-extras-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-extras-list
