[Kde-games-devel] ksnakeduel naming issues

[Albert Astals Cid]

El Dissabte, 7 de febrer de 2015, a les 18:08:47, Michał Zając va escriure:
> I'm not Jonathan's twin but we are both working on Kubuntu.

Yeah that was a joke, i think it didn't come across as funny though i guess :D

As Ian says, we decided to go away from ktron ages ago, please suggest a MR in 
reviewboard to do so, or convince Jonathan to reply on the one he did :)

Cheers,
  Albert

> I believe the source of the problem with the name is that Tron is a
> trademark (hence the partial rename to ksnakeduel). 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.
> 
> 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