On 01/05/07, Alan Cox alan@redhat.com wrote:
On Tue, May 01, 2007 at 08:28:17AM -0500, Tom spot Callaway wrote:
should be removed, not just the name 'tetris'. What is the legal status of tetris (and other game) clones? Can we get some "official" word from a legal department on what is and isn't allowed?
As long as the game doesn't use the "Tetris" trademark to describe itself, the game is fine.
Tetris is one to be very careful about as the Tetris company have a reputation for causing legal trouble.
A long discussion on precisely this issue can be found (without any real resolution) here:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=225726
[I just checked the emacs-devel mailing list archives, and as far as I can tell, noone has brought the whole matter to the attention of upstream.]
Jonathan,.