Re: Finding a new troubleless name for KBreakOut
Albert Astals Cid <[email protected]> Mon, 27 May 2024 00:06:15 +0200
| Newsgroups | gmane.comp.kde.devel.games |
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El diumenge, 26 de maig del 2024, a les 16:04:53 (CEST), Marc Deop i Argem= =C3=AD va=20 escriure: > Hello! >=20 > I am writing to you as a Fedora KDE packager and would like to bring to y= our > attention an old problem related to the name of the game KBreakOut. >=20 > We first got a bug 10 years ago: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi? > id=3D1167062 >=20 > It essentially says that Breakout is trademarked in the USA: https:// > tsdr.uspto.gov/#caseNumber=3D76062330&caseType=3DSERIAL_NO&searchType=3Ds= tatusSear > ch >=20 > And thus, Fedora has been _renaming_ this software downstream by the means > of this script: > https://src.fedoraproject.org/rpms/kbrickbuster/blob/rawhide/f/ patch.sh >=20 > I opened an issue on Invent mentioning the problem: https://invent.kde.or= g/ > games/kbreakout/-/issues/2 >=20 > Which lead to another of our contributors to submit a MR: https:// > invent.kde.org/games/kbreakout/-/merge_requests/16 >=20 > However, Albert Astals Cid mentioned that we should go through the commun= ity > in order to get an application renamed (thanks for the pointer :-) ) >=20 > And here we are! >=20 > Would everybody be ok with such a name change? KBreakOut -> kbrickbuster= ? >=20 > Feedback, opinions and discussions welcome! The opinions can of course also include new name suggestions. And unless KDE eV says we definitely have to change the name, I guess sayin= g=20 we want to keep the name is also an option. Cheers, Albert >=20 > Best regards, >=20 > Marc Deop