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Subject: [Kde-games-devel] RFC: Rename KBattleShip and KTron
From: Ryan Rix <ry () n ! rix ! si>
Date: 2010-01-22 21:20:15
Message-ID: 201001221417.24647.ry () n ! rix ! si
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Hello all,
I'd like to bring up an idea that I and the Fedora KDE SIG hope will be
considered for the KDE SC 4.5 timeframe, namely the renaming of KBattleShip
and KTron to names that do not conflict with active trademarks on the term
"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
Trademark laws, but in the US this leads to problems for distributions bound
to US Trademark laws (for example RHEL and Fedora, both associated with Red
Hat, Inc, based in Raleigh, North Carolina; Ubuntu and Canonical are probably
bound by them too, but I'm not sure that they respect these specific
trademarks) in that we cannot ship applications with these names. For specific
agreement with this from Fedora's Legal Team, please see comments 6 and 12 in
[1].
Currently, Fedora and RHEL ship custom patches to rename these two
applications KSinkShips and KSnakeDuel[4], respectively, but these are a major
pain to refactor at each new release, and this is a fairly large patch to
maintain.
As such, the Fedora KDE team is requesting that the applications be renamed to
something that does not possibly conflict with US trademarks on the games the
kdegames packages are based on.
Thanks everyone,
Ryan Rix
Fedora KDE Special Interests Group
[1]: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=481507
[2]: http://tess2.uspto.gov/bin/showfield?f=doc&state=4003:q2gahm.3.10
[3]: http://tess2.uspto.gov/bin/showfield?f=doc&state=4001:uguoai.2.41
([2] and [3] have various other trademarks owned on both for the
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=1.1&view=markup
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