Tetris clones
Tom "spot" Callaway
tcallawa at redhat.com
Tue May 1 13:28:17 UTC 2007
On Mon, 2007-04-30 at 21:50 -0700, Wart wrote:
> It was recently brought to my attention[1] that the bsd-games package
> contains 'tetris-bsd', a curses-based tetris clone. This was an
> oversight on my part, because if I had paid closer attention during the
> review I would have stripped the name 'tetris' and replaced it with
> something less objectionable. Now that I know, I'll do that anyway.
>
> But the bug report is claiming that all tetris clones are illegal and
> should be removed, not just the name 'tetris'. What is the legal status
> of tetris (and other game) clones? Can we get some "official" word from
> a legal department on what is and isn't allowed?
As long as the game doesn't use the "Tetris" trademark to describe
itself, the game is fine.
~spot
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