[Kde-games-devel] Kapman default theme

[Eugene Trounev]

Please leave the icons to me.

On Monday 05 of January 2009 09:16:11 Parker Coates wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 2, 2009 at 20:32, Mauricio Piacentini wrote:
> > With the artwork freeze dangerous close, do you guys think we should do
> > a groups effort and change the default Kapman theme, as discussed a
> > while ago in one of the meetings? There is a potential issue with the
> > characters being too similar to copyrighted ones (depending on where you
> > live, of course.) We could still provide the existing theme as a second
> > option.
> > At the same time, no one has reported this as an issue yet. Any opinions?
>
> There are still some major trademark issues even with the theme
> change. The application icon is still the original Pac-Man graphic and
> the sound made when the hero dies is very similar to the original (if
> memory serves me correctly).
>
> Namco Bandai has a history of suing for infringements of their Pac-Man
> copyright and trademarks [1] [2], so I think it makes sense to be very
> cautious with this.
>
> Parker
>
> [1]
> http://www.arcade-renaissance.com/2007/11/namco-bandai-announces-lawsuit-ag
>ainst.html [2] http://www.gamespot.com/news/2005/08/29/news_6132198.html
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