Bug 238526 - tetris-bsd is 'illegal' and shouldn't be included?
Summary: tetris-bsd is 'illegal' and shouldn't be included?
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Status: CLOSED NEXTRELEASE
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: bsd-games
Version: rawhide
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
medium
medium
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Assignee: Wart
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2007-05-01 03:45 UTC by vfiend
Modified: 2007-11-30 22:12 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2007-05-01 21:12:11 UTC
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Description vfiend 2007-05-01 03:45:33 UTC 
Gnometris apparently isn't included because there are legal issues ("All Tetris
clones are illegal", see bug 84407 and bug 148883) so doesn't this mean that
tetris-bsd shouldn't be included either? Tetris-bsd even uses the name 'tetris'
unlike gnometris.
Comment 1 Wart 2007-05-01 04:52:14 UTC 
The use of the name 'tetris' is an oversight and will be corrected shortly.  As
for including the game itself, I've asked for some advice/clarification from the
Fedora community on whether this is allowed or not.
Comment 2 vfiend 2007-05-01 05:24:42 UTC 
Well, I don't really know whether it's allowed or is illegal personally, I just
noticed that "All Tetris clones are illegal" was a quote a Red Hate developer
made in the other bug report.
Comment 3 Wart 2007-05-01 21:12:11 UTC 
Based on the discussion on fedora-devel-list and bug #224627, it seems that it's
enough to remove all user-visible references to tetris in the game, while the
game itself can remain.

This has been done in the latest bsd-games-2.17-20 release.
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