cvs commit: ports/games Makefile ports/games/tetris Makefile distinfo pkg-descr pkg-plist ports/games/tetris/files mktetristarball patch-Makefile patch-pathnames.h

[Edwin Groothuis]

On Wed, Apr 02, 2003 at 03:38:59PM +0300, Yonatan Bokovza wrote:
> > On Wed, Apr 02, 2003 at 02:21:05PM +0200, Christian Weisgerber wrote:
> > > In article 
> > <200304021018.h32AIJw7058207 at repoman.freebsd.org> you write:
> > > 
> > > >   Log:
> > > >   New port: games/tetris, taken from OpenBSD's base
> > > 
> > > This is problematic.  When I submitted a similar port a few years
> > > back, Satoshi refused it:
> > > 
> > > | I don't know why NetBSD and OpenBSD still ship tetris, 
> > but we (FreeBSD)
> > > | have received letters from the trademark owner's lawyers 
> > and have agreed
> > > | to not use the word "Tetris" in any directory or 
> > documentation.  Sorry,
> > > | but this still can't go in as long as you call it "Tetris".
> > > 
> > > http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=17054
> > 
> > Okies, that's fair enough.
> > 
> > Yonatan, how about "bsdtris" for a name?
> 
> no problem.

It still makes me wonder... 

If I call the port games/bsdtris, can the files installed by the
port (manpage, binary) still be called tetris then? I've renamed
them to bsdtris too, just to be sure. But it's something which made
me think.

Edwin


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