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[Tom 'spot' Callaway]

On Sun, 2005-09-04 at 11:07 -0500, Michel Alexandre Salim wrote:
> On Sun, 2005-09-04 at 09:31 -0500, Tom 'spot' Callaway wrote:
> > On Sun, 2005-09-04 at 14:01 +0200, Michael Schwendt wrote:
> > 
> > > Same here as added as a comment to the "quarry" review ticket in bugzilla.
> > > Follow the link there, where it is mentioned that Mattel sent a cease and
> > > desist letter to a website which provided an Othello game.
> > > http://www.atmedia.net/TWWWEP/noothello.html
> > > 
> > > >From a legal standpoint, I doubt you may call this implementation an
> > > "Othello/Reversi game" and get away with mentioning the trademark owner.
> > > You could call it Reversi, since that name is not trademarked. But even
> > > mentioning Othello would enter the same field as Tetris: to benefit from
> > > a well-known trademarked name and game concept.
> > 
> > I agree with Michael here. This is the fuzzy gray area of trademark fair
> > use, and I'd rather that we just refer to it as "Reversi" and remove all
> > references to Othello (tm).
> > 
> OK, I'm on it. How far does this extend - do I have to remove all
> references to it in the upstream documentation as well?

Probably. I know that's going to be a lot of fun, but hopefully, sed
will make that task simpler. Alternately, don't include the docs, just
point to upstream.

~spot
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