[Kde-games-devel] ksnakeduel naming issues

[Ian Wadham]

On 08/02/2015, at 4:08 AM, Michał Zając wrote:

> I'm not Jonathan's twin but we are both working on Kubuntu.
> I believe the source of the problem with the name is that Tron is a trademark (hence the partial rename to ksnakeduel). 

Exactly.  KTron was supposed to be renamed to KSnakeDuel, as resolved on this
list a few years ago.

> What I'm pushing here for is either finishing the rename to ksnakeduel or go back to ktron instead of keeping it inconsistent. If the latter is chosen then we are bound to run into copyright issues at some point.

The rename to KSnakeDuel should be completed, as was resolved, but it was
never fully implemented.

Cheers, Ian W.

> On Thu, Feb 5, 2015 at 8:12 PM, Albert Astals Cid <aacid at kde.org> wrote:
> El Dijous, 5 de febrer de 2015, a les 16:07:31, Michał Zając va escriure:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I've been wondering if it would be possible to have the ksnakeduel name
> > sorted out.
> >
> > Current situation is:
> >  - source tarball is named ksnakeduel
> >  - binary is named ktron
> >  - there is a desktop entry for kdesnake
> >
> > This leads to current situation where the package in Debian is named ktron
> > and in Ubuntu we have ksnakeduel and ktron which is a dummy package to pull
> > ksnakeduel and we are wondering which one to keep. There are also trademark
> > problems.
> >
> > My proposed solution would be to:
> > a) rename anything ktron to ksnakeduel
> > *b) rename kdesnake to ksnake
> >
> > * this is optional but IMO it would make sense to have ksnake when you have
> > ksnakeduel
> 
> Are you Jonathan Riddell's twin? He kind of proposed the same in
> https://git.reviewboard.kde.org/r/121589/
> 
> He failed to explain why we would want to have a ksnake and a ksnakeduel, seem
> too similar if they are exactly the same software.
> 
> Cheers,
>   Albert
> 
> >
> > Best regards,
> > Michał Zając
> 
> 
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