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

[Tom Callaway]

On 02/13/2013 04:12 PM, Rex Dieter wrote:
> 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

So the answer is:

No, packages should not say they are a clone of "bar", when bar is a
trademark.

~tom

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