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Hello all,

I'd like to bring up an idea that I and the Fedora KDE SIG hope will be=20
considered for the KDE SC 4.5 timeframe, namely the renaming of KBattleShip=
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and KTron to names that do not conflict with active trademarks on the term=
=20
"Battleship" (owned by Hasbro games)[1][2] and "Tron" (owned by Disney)[3]

Now, as a German based project, I am not sure regarding the respect of US=20
Trademark laws, but in the US this leads to problems for distributions boun=
d=20
to US Trademark laws (for example RHEL and Fedora, both associated with Red=
=20
Hat, Inc, based in Raleigh, North Carolina; Ubuntu and Canonical are probab=
ly=20
bound by them too, but I'm not sure that they respect these specific=20
trademarks) in that we cannot ship applications with these names. For speci=
fic=20
agreement with this from Fedora's Legal Team, please see comments 6 and 12 =
in=20
[1].

Currently, Fedora and RHEL ship custom patches to rename these two=20
applications KSinkShips and KSnakeDuel[4], respectively, but these are a ma=
jor=20
pain to refactor at each new release, and this is a fairly large patch to=20
maintain.=20

As such, the Fedora KDE team is requesting that the applications be renamed=
 to=20
something that does not possibly conflict with US trademarks on the games t=
he=20
kdegames packages are based on.

Thanks everyone,
Ryan Rix
=46edora KDE Special Interests Group

[1]: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=3D481507
[2]: http://tess2.uspto.gov/bin/showfield?f=3Ddoc&state=3D4003:q2gahm.3.10
[3]: http://tess2.uspto.gov/bin/showfield?f=3Ddoc&state=3D4001:uguoai.2.41
([2] and [3] have various other trademarks owned on both for the=20
implementations of the names and similar uses as we currently have)
[4]: http://cvs.fedoraproject.org/viewvc/devel/kdegames/kdegames-4.3.85-
trademarks.patch?revision=3D1.1&view=3Dmarkup

=2D-=20
Ryan Rix
=46edora KDE SIG Member, Phoenix AZ Ambassador, News KDE Beat writer

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