gnome-mastermind trademark question

Miriam Ruiz miriam at debian.org
Mon Dec 1 05:10:12 PST 2008


2008/12/1 Hans de Goede <hdegoede at 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

I agree. Maybe if we have to rename them we could do it in a way that
all the distros and systems can share the same names?

Greetings,
Miry


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