From: "Jonathan Underwood" <jonathan.underwood@gmail.com>
To: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Tetris trademark issue, reprise
Date: Tue, 1 May 2007 17:15:29 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <645d17210705010915s2502377s722d86e5dee3965c@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
Dear Emacs developers,
Back in January the Fedora packager of Emacs asked if there was a
trademark infringement with tetris.el. This reply:
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2007-01/msg00916.html
pointed out that trademarks don't usually cover file and function
names. But the issue is a bit more complex than that, because the game
itself in Emacs is called Tetris (at least, the menu item is called
that), and that may be a trademark issue. Plus the fact that tetris.el
could be regarded in someway as an executeable program might be an
issue. This has been thrashed through in a Bugzilla entry, where these
arguments are explained in much more detail, here
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=224627
I thought I should bring this up again here since the Red Hat legal
people seem quite concerned about it.
Best wishes,
Jonathan.
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