From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jean Louis Subject: Re: MAME emulator is giving incentive to use non-free software Date: Tue, 29 Mar 2016 19:29:22 +0200 Message-ID: <20160329172922.GA5115@protected.rcdrun.com> References: <20160329002620.GB6484@jookia-eeepc.Home> <20160329044242.GA1239@protected.rcdrun.com> <20160329062711.GA17752@jookia-eeepc.Home> <20160329073040.GA20807@protected.rcdrun.com> <20160329082522.GA10814@jookia-eeepc.Home> <20160329120051.GD13512@protected.rcdrun.com> <87h9fpnz1o.fsf@gnu.org> <20160329145251.GB26383@protected.rcdrun.com> <87mvphjm4w.fsf@gnu.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:37038) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1akxTe-0001tM-BH for guix-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 29 Mar 2016 13:30:51 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1akxTd-0003M0-Dl for guix-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 29 Mar 2016 13:30:50 -0400 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <87mvphjm4w.fsf@gnu.org> List-Id: "Development of GNU Guix and the GNU System distribution." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: guix-devel-bounces+gcggd-guix-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: guix-devel-bounces+gcggd-guix-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org To: Ludovic =?utf-8?Q?Court=C3=A8s?= Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org Hello, On Tue, Mar 29, 2016 at 06:15:43PM +0200, Ludovic Court=C3=A8s wrote: > There=E2=80=99s compliance officer going to tell us whether a proposed = extension > to the FSDG is good or not. The FSDG are community rules, not a law. When I referred to legality, that was in regards to trademark issues, as Nintendo=C2=AE and MAME=C2=AE are registered trademarks with US Patent an= d Trademark Office. Nintendo is very aggressive towards protecting their rights, as you can see on the links: https://www.nintendo.com/corp/legal.jsp#emulator And you can see on simple search that Nintendo is really doing that: https://duckduckgo.com/html?q=3Dnintendo+emulator+infringement&t=3Dgnu If a package is included in the GuixSD distribution that is named as below, it clearly uses trademark in such manner that it can be attacked. That is what you need to check with attorneys, to either confirm what I am claiming, or reject my claims. Do you understand? guix package --show=3Dnestopia-ue name: nestopia-ue version: 1.46.2 outputs: out systems: x86_64-linux i686-linux armhf-linux mips64el-linux dependencies: ao-1.2.0 glu-9.0.0 gtk+-3.18.2 libarchive-3.1.2 mesa-11.0.9 + pkg-config-0.29 sdl2-2.0.4 zlib-1.2.8 location: gnu/packages/games.scm:1766:2 homepage: http://0ldsk00l.ca/nestopia/ license: GPL 2+ synopsis: Nintendo Entertainment System (NES/Famicom) emulator description: Nestopia UE (Undead Edition) is a fork of the Nintendo + Entertainment System (NES/Famicom) emulator Nestopia, with enhancements from + members of the emulation community. It provides highly accurate emulation.