Hans de Goede wrote:
Nicu Buculei wrote:
There is a talk on GNOME Games about Fedora not including Gnometris
for some undisclosed legal issues:
http://mail.gnome.org/archives/games-list/2006-December/msg00043.html
There are two specific questions:
- what are the specific copyright/trademark problems?
The name is too close to tetris which is a strongly defended trademark.
I am not sure, in this bugzilla entry
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=148883 Havoc says
"All Tetris clones are illegal, unfortunately. Nothing we can do about
it.", which seems very strong and nor related to the name.
If the name was the only problem, it seems the GNOME people are disposed
to change the name.
- what can be done so Fedora is able to include the game (or at least
another Tetris clone)?
There already is a tetris clone in Fedora Extras: fbg (falling block
I know about the Core and Extras being merged, but Gnometris is a base
GNOME module, so a matter of Core or default desktop install (along with
the rest of GNOME Games)
game), what can be done is change the name and remove all references to
tetris from the docs. I've done the same for crack attack (remove all
references to tetris from the docs)
See above: default desktop install. Red Hat goes to extra measure to
remove a default GNOME component, so it should be something more.
Crack Attack is very different as playing style than Tetris, is an
entirely new game.
--
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