Re: gnome-mastermind trademark question
2008/12/2 Hans de Goede <hdegoede@redhat.com>:
> Ok, well in that case I'll pass I'm already bothering legal way too often
> with games related questions.
It would be better to have a name upstream likes, but if the name is
not legally safe for Fedora, it won't be for Debian either and
ignoring the problem won't fix it. We definitely have to find a way to
cope with this situations, my personal position is that either
upstream changes the name, or we change it unilaterally if the game is
worth it, or we avoid packaging the game until upstream acknowledges
the problem and reacts to it.
(internal note: We should file a bug to Debian's package about this)
Greetings,
Miry
Brief summary of previous mails [1], as I'm CC'ing both the
Debian/Ubuntu Games Team, Debian Legal and gnome-mastermind's
maintainer in Debian, due to the relevance -in my opinion- of the
discussion. The rest can safely ignore it:
Evgeni Golov wrote:
> Hey * (especially Hans),
>
> Filippo Argiolas (fargiolas@gnome.org) joined #freedesktop-games,
> asking if we could do something about the inclusion of his game
> gnome-mastermind[1] in Fedora.
>
> He stated that the game is not included because of Fedora worrying
> about the trademark of the original mastermind game, but eg Debian
> didn't.
> IANAL, but I don't see a real issue here, gnome-mastermind !=
> mastermind
2008/12/1 Hans de Goede <hdegoede@redhat.com>:
> Games and trademarks is an interesting topic to discuss on the new games-list
> in general, I've noticed that other distro's (Debian for example) do not seem
> to care much about this, even though it can be a real issue see the Scrabulous
> example. In Fedora however, we always rename games which are clones, when they
> have names to close to the original name, where possible working together with
> upstream. Some examples:
> lbreakout2 -> lbrickbuster2
> armagetron-ad -> armacycles-ad
> gnometris -> gnome-falling-blocks
> xgalaga -> xgalaxy
[1] http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/games/2008-December/000068.html
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