lbreakout in fedora extras?

[Hans de Goede]

Rahul Sundaram wrote:
> Hans de Goede wrote:
>> Hi all,
>>
>> I'm concidering packaging lbreakout for FE, but I think the name is a
>> problem, so some days ago I send a kind request to upstream to change
>> the name, of which I'll reproduce a part here as it decribes the issue
>> at hand:
>>
>> "There currently is one problem with lbreakout (and other lgames) at the
>> moment though, their names. We at Fedora try to be very carefully to
>> make a 100% Free distro which isn't "tainted" in anyway. Sticking to
>> lbreakout as example, the original breakout game is copyrighted by Atari
>> which still exists, and breakout clearly qualifies as a trademark. If
>> I'm to believe Atari's website its even a registered trademark, see:
>> http://www.atari.com/us/games/atari_anniversary/pc
>>
>> And look at the "Breakout®" text."
>>
>> Thus I believe lbreakout cannot be included as is however Debian does
>> have it in main. My guess is Debian just overlooked this and this cannot
>> go into FE as is. Opinions anyone?
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>> Hans
>>
>>
>> p.s.
>>
>> Chances are high that if the concensus is this cannot go in as is I'll
>> do a rebranded version and package that.
> 
> Have you tried contacting upstream and pointing out this potential 
> trademark issue with them? A Fedora rebranded version will cause 
> confusion similar to Firefox/Iceweasel.
> 
> Rahul
> 

Erm, which part of "so some days ago I send a kind request to upstream to change the name" as you can read in my original mail (above) wasn't / isn't clear?

Regards,

Hans