Date: Wed, 2 Apr 2003 15:50:39 +0200 From: Alexander Leidinger <Alexander@Leidinger.net> To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Cc: Christian Weisgerber <naddy@mips.inka.de> Subject: Re: cvs commit: ports/games Makefile ports/games/tetris Makefile distinfo pkg-descr pkg-plist ports/games/tetris/files mktetristarball patch-Makefile patch-pathnames.h Message-ID: <20030402155039.431dc35e.Alexander@Leidinger.net> In-Reply-To: <20030402125122.GI762@k7.mavetju> References: <C2DC75EEA405354AA9C03EF5CB8CDE089AA69B@exchange.xpert.com> <20030402125122.GI762@k7.mavetju>
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On Wed, 2 Apr 2003 22:51:22 +1000 Edwin Groothuis <edwin@mavetju.org> wrote: > On Wed, Apr 02, 2003 at 03:38:59PM +0300, Yonatan Bokovza wrote: > > > On Wed, Apr 02, 2003 at 02:21:05PM +0200, Christian Weisgerber wrote: > > > > In article > > > <200304021018.h32AIJw7058207@repoman.freebsd.org> you write: > > > > > > > > > Log: > > > > > New port: games/tetris, taken from OpenBSD's base > > > > > > > > This is problematic. When I submitted a similar port a few years > > > > back, Satoshi refused it: > > > > > > > > | I don't know why NetBSD and OpenBSD still ship tetris, > > > but we (FreeBSD) > > > > | have received letters from the trademark owner's lawyers > > > and have agreed > > > > | to not use the word "Tetris" in any directory or > > > documentation. Sorry, > > > > | but this still can't go in as long as you call it "Tetris". Do we have a list (as we don't have the right to use them in documentation it has to be somewhere on e.g. freefall) of such cases, where we have to take care of some trademarks and aren't allowed to use them? I'm not a lawyer, but is this (not being allowed to to refer to the word "Tetris" in documentation) in agreement with "the" law? I had the impression, that I'm allowed to publish docs which refers sometimes to names of trademarks in it as long as I tell everyone about the owner of the trademark (or by putting in a paragraph you may see in a lot of technical books which may fail to mark a trademark and list the owner of it and put the paragraph in to be on the safe side). Bye, Alexander. -- Failure is not an option. It comes bundled with your Microsoft product. http://www.Leidinger.net Alexander @ Leidinger.net GPG fingerprint = C518 BC70 E67F 143F BE91 3365 79E2 9C60 B006 3FE7
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