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Re: gnome-mastermind trademark question



2008/12/2 Filippo Argiolas <filippo.argiolas@gmail.com>:


> Hi Miriam, probably you should forward them my last reply too.

Yup, sorry, I wrote my email before yours.

> As I said I'm open to a name change or a suggestion.
> The game it's been in Debian for more than one year now and no one
> ever complained.

Well, you already read Steve's answer, he doesn't seem to share my
point of view.

> I could have continued to ignore it but *I* choosed to resume this
> issue because I'm a bit worried about it, so, please stop talking
> about unilateral changes or things like that.
> If you don't think the game it's worth feel free to remove it. But if
> it's just a name issue I'm quite open towards a change.

Sorry, I didn't mean to say that the game wasn't worth it. I'm really
sorry if it sounded like this. I was more describing my personal
position in an abstract case, I wasn't talking about gnome-mastermind
in concrete.

> Anyway I think you should really agree against some fixed
> (cross-distro) policy about this kind of things because I don't think
> it's something up to the opinion of single developers or packagers but
> they should be agreed with the community and with respective legal
> departments of each distributor.

It all depends in every case. Of course, in this case, as you're open
to suggestions and to find a way to solve the problem, the best would
be to do it upstream. That's not always the case for every upstream.

Greetings,
Miry


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