Jon Ciesla wrote:
Jon Ciesla wrote:
On Sat, 2007-07-14 at 09:51 +0200, Hans de Goede wrote:
Hi all,
Jon Ciesla wrote:
I know Armagetron is on the will not package list, and I know it's
due
to
trademark issues. Is there more to that that just the name? If not,
then
either we need to package it or drop/modify kdegames, as it has
ktron,
which, AFAICT, meets the same standard.
Indeed it does, I think the name for that should be changed or it
should
be
dropped.
If this has been discussed previously and I missed it, I apologize,
but
I'm just curious as to what the litmus test is.
It hasn't been discussed before, I've added Spot to the CC as he
usually
makes
the decisions surrounding legal stuff. Tom, my assessment of the
situation is
that ktron indeed is a problem too.
While at the subject, I think that renaming Armagetron and removing
any
references to Tron from the docs / text printed in the game, should
make
Armagetron acceptabl, do you agree? And is anyone willing todo this?
Yes. This is the conclusion that Red Hat came to several years ago as
well.
As long as it isn't using the exact same graphics and sounds, and
doesn't use the trademark (or any derivation of the trademark), it's
fine.
Ktron and Armagetron need to be renamed. Klightcars, for example. I
have
no suggestion for Armagetron.
I would be willing, and could likely come up with names. :)
Cool, let me know when you've got something to review. Be sure to kindly
inform
upstream that we will be including a version under a different name. It
would
be good to let them choose if you can come up with several names.
I've filed a bug to get ktron renamed here:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=248343
To clarify further, would it be adequate to sed -i s/old/new/ the
infringing text where it occurs, changing filenames/paths as appropriate,
at build time, or should the source tarball be modified beforehand, to
prevent presence of infringing material in distributed SRPMS?
In order to infringe a trademark one must "advertise" with it, so its fine to
just use patches / sed as you like.
This is all AFAIK, IANAL ofcourse, but this is what other troublesome packages
have been doing sofar.
Regards,
Hans
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