<div dir="auto"><div>my 2 cents to protect our own known game by its name by just adding small changes, i mean instead of changing it completely lets make it something like KBreakItOut or KBreaksOut , ... Otherwise<br><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Mon, May 27, 2024, 01:06 Albert Astals Cid <<a href="mailto:aacid@kde.org">aacid@kde.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">El diumenge, 26 de maig del 2024, a les 16:04:53 (CEST), Marc Deop i Argemí va <br>
escriure:<br>
> Hello!<br>
> <br>
> I am writing to you as a Fedora KDE packager and would like to bring to your<br>
> attention an old problem related to the name of the game KBreakOut.<br>
> <br>
> We first got a bug 10 years ago: <a href="https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi" rel="noreferrer noreferrer" target="_blank">https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi</a>?<br>
> id=1167062<br>
> <br>
> It essentially says that Breakout is trademarked in the USA: https://<br>
> <a href="http://tsdr.uspto.gov/#caseNumber=76062330&caseType=SERIAL_NO&searchType=statusSear" rel="noreferrer noreferrer" target="_blank">tsdr.uspto.gov/#caseNumber=76062330&caseType=SERIAL_NO&searchType=statusSear</a><br>
> ch<br>
> <br>
> And thus, Fedora has been _renaming_ this software downstream by the means<br>
> of this script:<br>
> <a href="https://src.fedoraproject.org/rpms/kbrickbuster/blob/rawhide/f/" rel="noreferrer noreferrer" target="_blank">https://src.fedoraproject.org/rpms/kbrickbuster/blob/rawhide/f/</a> patch.sh<br>
> <br>
> I opened an issue on Invent mentioning the problem: <a href="https://invent.kde.org/" rel="noreferrer noreferrer" target="_blank">https://invent.kde.org/</a><br>
> games/kbreakout/-/issues/2<br>
> <br>
> Which lead to another of our contributors to submit a MR: https://<br>
> <a href="http://invent.kde.org/games/kbreakout/-/merge_requests/16" rel="noreferrer noreferrer" target="_blank">invent.kde.org/games/kbreakout/-/merge_requests/16</a><br>
> <br>
> However, Albert Astals Cid mentioned that we should go through the community<br>
> in order to get an application renamed (thanks for the pointer :-) )<br>
> <br>
> And here we are!<br>
> <br>
> Would everybody be ok with such a name change? KBreakOut -> kbrickbuster ?<br>
> <br>
> Feedback, opinions and discussions welcome!<br>
<br>
The opinions can of course also include new name suggestions.<br>
<br>
And unless KDE eV says we definitely have to change the name, I guess saying <br>
we want to keep the name is also an option.<br>
<br>
Cheers,<br>
Albert<br>
<br>
> <br>
> Best regards,<br>
> <br>
> Marc Deop<br>
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