Finding a new troubleless name for KBreakOut

Marc Deop i Argemí marcdeop at fedoraproject.org
Sun May 26 15:04:53 BST 2024


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=statusSearch

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!

Best regards,

Marc Deop




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