lbreakout in fedora extras?

[Rahul Sundaram]

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