[Fedora-legal-list] use of trademark'd names in pkg summary/description/.desktop-files?

Rex Dieter rdieter at math.unl.edu
Wed Feb 13 21:12:49 UTC 2013


Rex Dieter wrote:

> Is the use of trademarked terms acceptable in a package Summary,
> %description, or in it's .desktop files?
> 
> A concreate example are games, is it acceptable for game "foo" to say it's
> a
> clone of popular (trademarked) game "bar"?  Any guideline or advice to
> follow?  (my quick searching and googling failed me)

Sure enough, not minutes after posting this, I find,

http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:Guidelines#Trademarks_in_Summary_or_Description






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