Finding a new troubleless name for KBreakOut

Albert Astals Cid aacid at kde.org
Sun May 26 23:06:15 BST 2024


El diumenge, 26 de maig del 2024, a les 16:04:53 (CEST), Marc Deop i Argemí va 
escriure:
> Hello!
> 
> I am writing to you as a Fedora KDE packager and would like to bring to your
> attention an old problem related to the name of the game KBreakOut.
> 
> We first got a bug 10 years ago: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?
> id=1167062
> 
> It essentially says that Breakout is trademarked in the USA: https://
> tsdr.uspto.gov/#caseNumber=76062330&caseType=SERIAL_NO&searchType=statusSear
> ch
> 
> And thus, Fedora has been _renaming_ this software downstream by the means
> of this script:
> https://src.fedoraproject.org/rpms/kbrickbuster/blob/rawhide/f/ patch.sh
> 
> I opened an issue on Invent mentioning the problem: https://invent.kde.org/
> games/kbreakout/-/issues/2
> 
> Which lead to another of our contributors to submit a MR: https://
> invent.kde.org/games/kbreakout/-/merge_requests/16
> 
> However, Albert Astals Cid mentioned that we should go through the community
> in order to get an application renamed (thanks for the pointer :-) )
> 
> And here we are!
> 
> Would everybody be ok with such a name change?  KBreakOut -> kbrickbuster ?
> 
> Feedback, opinions and discussions welcome!

The opinions can of course also include new name suggestions.

And unless KDE eV says we definitely have to change the name, I guess saying 
we want to keep the name is also an option.

Cheers,
  Albert

> 
> Best regards,
> 
> Marc Deop






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