Re: The game formally known as....

[Joe Decker <someone patmos-international com>]

What about Gnscrabble or how about Game that has a name copyrighted by a
major game company and I dont want to get sued so I name it this big long
sentance?  or you can always name it Gnome-WordGame...

On Mon, 23 Aug 1999, Tom Gilbert wrote:

> Hi folks.
> 
> I have recently started development on a scrabble game for Gnome. The
> project is only a couple of weeks old, but is coming along.
> 
> My working title has been Gnome-scrabble, but it has been (correctly)
> pointed out to me that this name is a trademark, and I cannot use it.
> 
> My imagination sucks.
> 
> For this reason I am asking for suggestions for a new name for the
> game. One that will convey the "scrabble" idea, whilst avoiding
> copyright infringements :)
> 
> I first though Gnabble, then I thought, no, that sucks.
> 
> If anyone has any suggestions, please mail them, or submit them to the
> list. I can code, but thinking up funky names is on the whole, beyond
> me ;)
> 
> Reply soon, I have some serious sed-ing to do ;)
> 
> sed s/gnome-scrabble/newname/g , or something like that?
> 
> 
> Developers
> ----------
> (and the reason for posting this to gnome-devel-list too)
> 
> Is there a quick and easy way to rename an entire CVS module?
> 
> Or do I remove the whole lot and re-import?
> 
> Tom.
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