From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Tetris trademark Date: Sun, 28 Jan 2007 02:41:28 -0500 Message-ID: References: Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15 X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1169970188 10504 80.91.229.12 (28 Jan 2007 07:43:08 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 28 Jan 2007 07:43:08 +0000 (UTC) Cc: coldwell@redhat.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Chris Moore Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Jan 28 08:43:02 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 1HB4gn-0000l2-Mz for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 28 Jan 2007 08:43:01 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1HB4gn-0001mO-D3 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 28 Jan 2007 02:43:01 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1HB4gD-0001Y6-Ta for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 28 Jan 2007 02:42:25 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1HB4gD-0001Xc-8i for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 28 Jan 2007 02:42:25 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1HB4gC-0001XS-Uw for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 28 Jan 2007 02:42:24 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([199.232.76.164]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.52) id 1HB4gC-0003KG-NT for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 28 Jan 2007 02:42:24 -0500 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1HB4fI-00062H-Vg; Sun, 28 Jan 2007 02:41:29 -0500 In-reply-to: (message from Chris Moore on Sat, 27 Jan 2007 14:03:54 +0100) X-detected-kernel: Linux 2.6, seldom 2.4 (older, 4) 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:65554 Archived-At: 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/). My understanding is that game rules as such are not copyrightable. Incidentally, I just tried running M-x tetris RET. After playing 2 games, a buffer appeared called 'tetris-scores' showing 3 scores: 03037 Sat Jan 27 13:48:27 2007 03031 Sat Jan 27 13:48:27 2007 00349 Sat Jan 27 13:34:52 2007 Can you debug this?