From owner-freebsd-stable Thu Sep 11 07:12:40 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id HAA22805 for stable-outgoing; Thu, 11 Sep 1997 07:12:40 -0700 (PDT) Received: from lsd.relcom.eu.net (ache@lsd.relcom.eu.net [193.124.23.23]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id HAA22783; Thu, 11 Sep 1997 07:12:33 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from ache@localhost) by lsd.relcom.eu.net (8.8.7/8.8.7) id SAA06814; Thu, 11 Sep 1997 18:11:52 +0400 (MSD) Date: Thu, 11 Sep 1997 18:11:46 +0400 (MSD) From: =?KOI8-R?B?4c7E0sXKIP7F0s7P1w==?= X-Sender: ache@lsd.relcom.eu.net To: David Greenman cc: "Chad R. Larson" , Peter Wemm , current@FreeBSD.ORG, stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: HEADS UP: *tetris* files removed from cvs repository... In-Reply-To: <199709111237.FAA20965@implode.root.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Thu, 11 Sep 1997, David Greenman wrote: > >At 09:20 AM 9/11/97 +0400, wrote: > >>I don't understand why it is removed and not renamed instead. > >>Is it supposed to come back under different name? > >>The code itself is written from scratch and _not_ illegal. > > > >It would seem to me that a simple re-name would take care of the legal issues. > >Call it "breakout". :-) > > It's possible that after the code has been sanitized of "tetris" that it > could come back under a different name. This will require source changes > and is not a concern right now, however. We were compelled to take immediate > action. I can take this "sanitizing" task. Could you please describe me (privately) your point of view on this process since you are more familiar with those trademark laws? Do you have any good name candidade to not break someone trademark again? :-) -- Andrey A. Chernov http://www.nagual.pp.ru/~ache/