crack attack trademark issues / ok for Fe?
Michael Schwendt
bugs.michael at gmx.net
Wed Aug 2 15:12:50 UTC 2006
On Tue, 01 Aug 2006 23:08:33 +0200, Hans de Goede wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I was wondering why the game crack-attack was in that other repo instead
> of in FE.
With more searching it might be possible to find more references to prior
discussion. This has come up before and also before April 2005.
So I asked the other repo, I got a reply pointing to this post:
>
> https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-extras-list/2005-April/msg00727.html
This doesn't contain any details.
> Which talks about the Tetris trademark. I however do not see how thats
> an issue as the name crack attack does not seem to use the word Tetris.
Maybe it does no longer. The game web page still does.
Wikipedia gives a brief summary of all the legal rumblings around clones
of Tetris, which didn't use the same name. Enough reason to be concerned
unless you're a lawyer.
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