Hi Christophe,

I know that Blokus is a trademark and have never tried to hide it. I
even explicitely mention it at several places on Pentobi's web page
and in the documentation. But this only means that I am not allowed to
call my program Blokus. It does not mean that I am not allowed to use
expressions like "Pentobi is a computer opponent for the board game
Blokus", which makes pretty clear that there existed a board game
named Blokus before, which I am referring to. To replace every
occurence of Blokus by something like "the popular game that may not
be named" is not necessary at all (although I was amused by the idea
:-).

However, I noticed that you changed the description in your spec file
to "Pentobi is a program to play the board game Blokus", which could
be less safe. I would use "Pentobi is a computer opponent for the
board game Blokus" instead.

- Markus


On 6/27/13, Christophe B <linuxed_fedora@yahoo.fr> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm packaging pentobi for fedora and i have fall on a block point :
>
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=885038
>
> Blokus is a registered trademark
>
> The solution given is : "You will need to replace the "Blokus" trademark
> with "a popular block-based abstract strategy board game" in all the places
> it is visible to the end-user, including in the .spec description."
>
> Is it possible to patch all the "Blokus" trademark with "a popular
> block-based abstract strategy board game" ?
>
> Regards
>
> Chris