Just got this from an Armagetron dev. I'll check out the forum. Tom, would you be able to contribute a short post on the trademark issues to the forum? ---------------------------- Original Message ---------------------------- Subject: Re: Fedora, trademarks, etc. From: "Fred" <guru3@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Wed, August 8, 2007 11:16 am To: "Jon Ciesla" <limb@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: zman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Hello Jon. I've talked with other members of the project, and no one is especially opposed to a rebranded version of Armagetron Advanced appearing in Fedora. However, some people have expressed interest in exactly what part of the name has trademark issue. (After all that could affect us one day.) As for a new name, to be honest, no one was especially thrilled with the name "WeasleCycles", because that sort of gives you an image of there at least being some weasles somewhere, possibly on bicycles. Which if as a patch to AA was something you had the manpower to do, wouldn't be too bad. That aside, the name ideas we've had have all be trying to hold onto some part of our original name. "Cycletron" after an early particle accelerator. "Armacycles" or "Cycles Armageddon" are some other ideas we've had. Most of our project communication occurs on our forums, and I've started a thread (http://forums.armagetronad.net/viewtopic.php?t=17869) there about other names. Feel free to participate there, and also if you decide to rebrand and anything comes up, post away. A post or two on what's been done to create the package wouldn't go astray either, as no one's done an RPM in ages. Fred On Thu, 2 Aug 2007, Jon Ciesla wrote: > Hi. My name is Jon, and I'm a Fedora Maintainer. > > I'm looking into the possibility of getting ArmagetronAD into Fedora. The > only blocker is the name, as Red Hat legal says it's a potential trademark > infringement (RH's position, not mine). I've been given the green light > to go ahead with packaging it in such a way that the name is changed > throughout, a total rebranding if you will, but otherwise no > modifications. > > I have a few ideas for a rebranded name, but I was wondering if you had > any suggestions/preferences/etc. I was thinking WeaselCycles, in homage > to the ridiculous Debian/Firefox/Iceweasel situation. > > Let me know. > > Thank you! > > Jon Ciesla > > > -- > novus ordo absurdum > > -- novus ordo absurdum _______________________________________________ Fedora-games-list mailing list Fedora-games-list@xxxxxxxxxx http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-games-list
