From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Lennart Borgman (gmail)" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Tetris trademark Date: Sat, 27 Jan 2007 16:10:21 +0100 Message-ID: <45BB6B5D.5080107@gmail.com> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1169910657 26790 80.91.229.12 (27 Jan 2007 15:10:57 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 27 Jan 2007 15:10:57 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Chip Coldwell , rms@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Chris Moore Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Jan 27 16:10:47 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1HApCY-0001cT-MD for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 27 Jan 2007 16:10:47 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1HApCY-0000ZJ-5b for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 27 Jan 2007 10:10:46 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1HApCG-0000SZ-SI for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 27 Jan 2007 10:10:28 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1HApCF-0000Qb-7y for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 27 Jan 2007 10:10:28 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1HApCF-0000QT-5a for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 27 Jan 2007 10:10:27 -0500 Original-Received: from ch-smtp02.sth.basefarm.net ([80.76.149.213]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA:32) (Exim 4.52) id 1HApCD-00026n-St; Sat, 27 Jan 2007 10:10:26 -0500 Original-Received: from c83-254-145-24.bredband.comhem.se ([83.254.145.24]:60867 helo=[127.0.0.1]) by ch-smtp02.sth.basefarm.net with esmtp (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1HApCB-000407-9G; Sat, 27 Jan 2007 16:10:24 +0100 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.0.9) Gecko/20061207 Thunderbird/1.5.0.9 Mnenhy/0.7.4.666 In-Reply-To: X-Antivirus: avast! (VPS 000707-0, 2007-01-27), Outbound message X-Antivirus-Status: Clean X-Scan-Result: No virus found in message 1HApCB-000407-9G. X-Scan-Signature: ch-smtp02.sth.basefarm.net 1HApCB-000407-9G 8d74e0f241a22a014ec456eee10e6c99 X-detected-kernel: Linux 2.6? (barebone, rare!) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:65524 Archived-At: Chris Moore wrote: > Richard Stallman writes: > >> Is anybody concerned that lisp/play/tetris.el might be a trademark >> infringement? >> >> File names and function names usually do not raise a trademark issue. >> So there is no need to worry about this. > > But what about the game itself? It's not just the name of the file > and functions, but the Tetris game itself is "subject to the > registered copyrights of Tetris Holding LLC" (according to > http://www.tetris.com/). I think there are some useful notes about this on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tetris#History See the end of the History section. It seems like you can not copyright a game, but I do not understand the details there.