Finding a new troubleless name for KBreakOut

[Ömer Fadıl USTA]

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

On Mon, May 27, 2024, 01:06 Albert Astals Cid <aacid at kde.org> wrote:

> 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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