From owner-freebsd-ports Tue Jan 16 8:40:21 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@hub.freebsd.org Received: from freefall.freebsd.org (freefall.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.21]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C996637B402 for ; Tue, 16 Jan 2001 08:40:02 -0800 (PST) Received: (from gnats@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.11.1/8.11.1) id f0GGe2Z64468; Tue, 16 Jan 2001 08:40:02 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from gnats) Date: Tue, 16 Jan 2001 08:40:02 -0800 (PST) Message-Id: <200101161640.f0GGe2Z64468@freefall.freebsd.org> To: freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.org Cc: From: Dima Dorfman Subject: Re: ports/24374: New port: a display-based tetris game Reply-To: Dima Dorfman Sender: owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org The following reply was made to PR ports/24374; it has been noted by GNATS. From: Dima Dorfman To: Trevor Johnson Cc: FreeBSD-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ports/24374: New port: a display-based tetris game Date: Tue, 16 Jan 2001 08:38:53 -0800 > > # This archive contains: > > # > > # tetris > > A search of http://tess.uspto.gov/ shows that "Tetris" is a trademark for > a brand of video game. The company that owns the mark is in the habit of > threatening people who clone their game (even those who don't use the name > "Tetris"). There used to be a port called xtetris, which has vanished in > one of the great purges but left a trace in old revisions of ports/LEGAL. > It seems to be customary to avoid calling games of this type "Tetris". I > suggest following the custom by giving the port a different name. Very well. Should I just rename the port, or devise a way (regexp, patches, or otherwise) to replace all occurrences of the word 'tetris' in any files fetched? It seems the other ports mostly prefer the former; some (most?) even have 'tetris' in their comment and description. I should also note that both OpenBSD and NetBSD come with this game in the base system. In fact, this port checks out the sources from OpenBSD's repository. Dima Dorfman dima@unixfreak.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message