From: swedebugia <swedebugia@riseup.net>
To: pkill9@runbox.com
Cc: 34523 <34523@debbugs.gnu.org>
Subject: [bug#34523] Add tetrinet
Date: Tue, 26 Feb 2019 21:45:23 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <190C4B54-2EDE-4B00-B7AF-04DC96F91E2A@riseup.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E1gyeWy-0003pC-25@rmmprod05.runbox>
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pkill9@runbox.com skrev: (26 februari 2019 16:20:28 CET)
>Hi Swedebugia,
>
>> having looked it up online I prefer the WP synopsis:
>> "TetriNET is a console multiplayer online Tetris game for up to six
>people."
>>
>> There is a gnome version also. We should state clearly that this is a
>> console/text-mode client.
>
>What does 'WP' mean?
>
>> As an aside I did not find a working server anywhere and the homepage
>of
>> the project is dead. There is a possibility to host your own server
>with
>> jetrix though.
>
>I played Tetrinet with someone over a server, but I can't remember what
>the address was.
>
>You can't access the homepage of the project? I can access
>http://tetrinet.or.cz fine. Or do you mean it hasn't been updated in
>ages?
>
>> There could be trademark issues with the name/game also see
>> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Tetris_Company
>
>Regarding the potential trademark issues, both FSF-approved distros
>Parabola and PureOS have Tetrinet in their repositories[1][2], so I
>think it would be acceptable to add it to Guix. And if a copyright
>claim is made in the future it can always be removed.
>
>[1] Tetrinet in Parabola - https://www.parabola.nu/packages/?q=tetrinet
>[2] Tetrinet in PureOS -
>https://software.pureos.net/search_pkg?term=tetrinet
>
>Thanks
>
>On Sat, 23 Feb 2019 07:23:43 +0100, swedebugia <swedebugia@riseup.net>
>wrote:
>
>> On 2019-02-23 10:26, swedebugia wrote:
>> > For the sake of making it easy to find when searching synopsies I
>> > suggest you add "game" to the end of yours.
>> > --
>> > Sent from my k-9 mail for Android.
>>
>> having looked it up online I prefer the WP synopsis:
>> "TetriNET is a console multiplayer online Tetris game for up to six
>people."
>>
>> There is a gnome version also. We should state clearly that this is a
>> console/text-mode client.
>>
>> As an aside I did not find a working server anywhere and the homepage
>of
>> the project is dead. There is a possibility to host your own server
>with
>> jetrix though.
>>
>> There could be trademark issues with the name/game also see
>> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Tetris_Company
>>
>> --
>> Cheers Swedebugia
Hi
I agree with your remarks
WP = wikipedia
Given that there is no pgp signed tarball or even a checksum on that page, have you asked the maintainer about this and verified that you got the code unaltered?
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-02-26 20:46 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-02-18 6:57 [bug#34523] Add tetrinet pkill9
2019-02-18 10:36 ` Ricardo Wurmus
2019-02-18 14:11 ` Tobias Geerinckx-Rice
2019-02-18 14:41 ` Danny Milosavljevic
2019-02-23 9:23 ` swedebugia
2019-02-19 7:51 ` pkill9
2019-02-23 9:26 ` swedebugia
2019-02-23 6:23 ` swedebugia
2019-02-26 15:20 ` pkill9
2019-02-26 20:45 ` swedebugia [this message]
2019-02-27 7:10 ` pkill9
2021-08-06 3:20 ` bug#34523: " Maxim Cournoyer
2019-02-26 15:44 ` [bug#34523] " pkill9
2019-02-26 20:40 ` swedebugia
2019-02-27 7:01 ` pkill9
2019-02-27 14:11 ` pkill9
2019-02-28 4:03 ` swedebugia
2019-03-02 20:10 ` pkill9
2019-03-31 11:44 ` pkill9
2019-04-10 13:07 ` pkill9
2019-06-30 9:33 ` pkill9
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