crack attack trademark issues / ok for Fe?

[Hans de Goede]

Wart wrote:
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> Hans de Goede wrote:
>> Hi,
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>> I was wondering why the game crack-attack was in that other repo instead
>> of in FE.  So I asked the other repo, I got a reply pointing to this post:
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>> https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-extras-list/2005-April/msg00727.html
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> This also has ramifications on ltris:
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=200665
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> as well as ksmiletris (part of kde-games) and tong (already in FE).
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Yes indeed, for each game which we package which is inspired by another 
game we must carefully way if that it was merely inspired (iow uses the 
same game mechanics / rules) or is just a complete copy. Assuming the 
graphics were all redrawn by hand (and not taken from screenshots which 
would be a plain copyright violation) if the graphics are a pretty exact 
copy its still legally a bit of a gray area (plagiarism). As said in my 
previous mail for platform games for example, copying the levels even 
with redrawn / other graphics would probably not be ok. Basicly any 
copying other then the game concept is most likely not ok :)

Also using tris in the name is not helping these other cases. I believe 
these others should be patched so that they no longer use tris in the 
name nor reference tetris in the docs, just use "falling blocks game" in 
the docs instead.

I think that a patch in the SRPM removing the use of *tris from the 
shipped RPMS should be good enough, this is how core does it with 
gnome-games which also contains a tetris like game. This game is removed 
   from gnome-games in %install, so it it still in the SRPM.

Regards,

Hans

And remember this is all IMHO, IANAL