Is the use of trademarked terms acceptable in a package Summary, %description, or in it's .desktop files?
A concreate example are games, is it acceptable for game "foo" to say it's a clone of popular (trademarked) game "bar"? Any guideline or advice to follow? (my quick searching and googling failed me)
-- Rex
Rex Dieter wrote:
Is the use of trademarked terms acceptable in a package Summary, %description, or in it's .desktop files?
A concreate example are games, is it acceptable for game "foo" to say it's a clone of popular (trademarked) game "bar"? Any guideline or advice to follow? (my quick searching and googling failed me)
Sure enough, not minutes after posting this, I find,
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:Guidelines#Trademarks_in_Summary_or_...
On 02/13/2013 04:12 PM, Rex Dieter wrote:
Rex Dieter wrote:
Is the use of trademarked terms acceptable in a package Summary, %description, or in it's .desktop files?
A concreate example are games, is it acceptable for game "foo" to say it's a clone of popular (trademarked) game "bar"? Any guideline or advice to follow? (my quick searching and googling failed me)
Sure enough, not minutes after posting this, I find,
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:Guidelines#Trademarks_in_Summary_or_...
So the answer is:
No, packages should not say they are a clone of "bar", when bar is a trademark.
~tom
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