From owner-freebsd-current Thu Sep 11 11:43:55 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id LAA09243 for current-outgoing; Thu, 11 Sep 1997 11:43:55 -0700 (PDT) Received: from usr07.primenet.com (tlambert@usr07.primenet.com [206.165.6.207]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id LAA09223; Thu, 11 Sep 1997 11:43:49 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from tlambert@localhost) by usr07.primenet.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) id LAA25652; Thu, 11 Sep 1997 11:42:57 -0700 (MST) From: Terry Lambert Message-Id: <199709111842.LAA25652@usr07.primenet.com> Subject: Re: HEADS UP: *tetris* files removed from cvs repository... To: ache@nagual.pp.ru (=?KOI8-R?B?4c7E0sXKIP7F0s7P1w==?=) Date: Thu, 11 Sep 1997 18:42:56 +0000 (GMT) Cc: dg@root.com, chad@dcfinc.com, peter@spinner.dialix.com.au, current@FreeBSD.ORG, stable@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: from "=?KOI8-R?B?4c7E0sXKIP7F0s7P1w==?=" at Sep 11, 97 06:11:46 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] Content-Type: text Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > > 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? :-) We all know that what they really want is to stifle competition, since they will never willing enter the UNIX market with a commercial product; they want you to run DOS and use their DOS product instead. Jerks. I suggest the following: Rename the source file to "main.c" and the man source to main.6. Then, in the Makefile: PROG= newname SRCS= main.c ... CFLAGS+=-DPROGNAME=\"${PROG)\" ${PROG}.6: main.6 ... sed main.6 with ${PROG} to create ${PROG}.6 ... ...So it's a one line change forever after. PS: I'm partial to xtris. "tetris-like-game" is too much to type. 8-). Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.