From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Chris Moore Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Tetris trademark Date: Sat, 27 Jan 2007 14:03:54 +0100 Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1169903237 5840 80.91.229.12 (27 Jan 2007 13:07:17 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 27 Jan 2007 13:07:17 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Chip Coldwell , emacs-devel@gnu.org To: rms@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Jan 27 14:07:15 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 1HAnGx-0007gd-It for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 27 Jan 2007 14:07:11 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1HAnGw-0004qF-VK for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 27 Jan 2007 08:07:10 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1HAnDv-00037d-FX for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 27 Jan 2007 08:04:03 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1HAnDt-00036u-Pz for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 27 Jan 2007 08:04:03 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1HAnDt-00036h-8u for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 27 Jan 2007 08:04:01 -0500 Original-Received: from ug-out-1314.google.com ([66.249.92.175]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.52) id 1HAnDs-0001DN-LB for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 27 Jan 2007 08:04:00 -0500 Original-Received: by ug-out-1314.google.com with SMTP id j3so1026397ugf for ; Sat, 27 Jan 2007 05:03:59 -0800 (PST) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=received:to:cc:references:from:date:in-reply-to:message-id:user-agent:mime-version:content-type:x-sa-exim-connect-ip:x-sa-exim-mail-from:x-spam-checker-version:x-spam-level:x-spam-status:subject:x-sa-exim-version:x-sa-exim-scanned:sender; b=pB04AmOPGPNA1AutynuE3+T9+KxOmmztrJaXhRyEleSxLAoEV7wIe0Dd9Y48Wr1DQTTx2Jov2lXO1TWvkqPFjTTT/Lax6ObbJSRiH8K/J9Eg9r0HzjDa5SkKgM9UklbYvTMNT0WLBCunnEouAg3teIi6MhnDXnb6/4ZmQKKMKsU= Original-Received: by 10.67.117.2 with SMTP id u2mr5540508ugm.1169903039513; Sat, 27 Jan 2007 05:03:59 -0800 (PST) Original-Received: from chrislap.local ( [89.176.28.156]) by mx.google.com with ESMTP id 39sm4941501ugb.2007.01.27.05.03.58; Sat, 27 Jan 2007 05:03:58 -0800 (PST) Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=chrislap.local) by chrislap.local with esmtp (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1HAnDn-0004if-3V; Sat, 27 Jan 2007 14:03:56 +0100 In-Reply-To: (Richard Stallman's message of "Fri\, 26 Jan 2007 23\:19\:13 -0500") User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.0.93 (gnu/linux) X-SA-Exim-Connect-IP: 127.0.0.1 X-SA-Exim-Mail-From: dooglus@gmail.com X-SA-Exim-Version: 4.2.1 (built Tue, 09 Jan 2007 17:23:22 +0000) X-SA-Exim-Scanned: Yes (on chrislap.local) X-detected-kernel: Linux 2.4-2.6 (Google crawlbot) 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:65520 Archived-At: 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/). 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 The top 2 scores appear to be from the same game.