From kde-games-devel  Sat Jan 23 12:10:25 2010
From: Mauricio Piacentini <piacentini () kde ! org>
Date: Sat, 23 Jan 2010 12:10:25 +0000
To: kde-games-devel
Subject: Re: [Kde-games-devel] RFC: Rename KBattleShip and KTron
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On Fri, Jan 22, 2010 at 8:44 PM, Kevin Kofler <kevin.kofler@chello.at> wrote:
> Ryan Rix wrote:
>> 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.
>
> Actually, only Fedora ships the rebranded games, for RHEL, Than opted to
> remove them entirely.

I am not entirely sure I support this "preemptive" bowing to a future
and hyphotetical claim of trademark violation on a specific country,
specially in the case of KBattleShip, which is simply K associated
with a common word in English. I believe this is something that we
hould seek advice from the e.V. before settling on a resolution, if
only to establish a way to deal with similar issues in the future.
In my *personal* view it is almost impossible to foresee every
possible naming issue in all countries where KDE ships. Does "Dolphin"
or "Plasma" violate trademarks as well? I know several software called
Plasma, at least two major commercial, one for audio and one for
graphics, both from well known american manufacturers
(http://www.flashmagazine.com/reviews/detail/discreet_plasma/)  and
(http://proaudiomusic.com/software/cakewalk/cakewalk_plasma.htm).
Should we preemptively rename Plasma as well?

Regards,
Mauricio Piacentini
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