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From: swedebugia <swedebugia <at> riseup.net>
To: pkill9 <at> runbox.com
Cc: 34523 <34523 <at> debbugs.gnu.org>, me <me <at> tobias.gr>
Subject: Re: [bug#34523] Add tetrinet
Date: Tue, 26 Feb 2019 21:45:23 +0100

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pkill9 <at> runbox.com skrev: (26 februari 2019 16:20:28 CET)
>Hi Swedebugia,
>
>> having looked it up online I prefer the WP synopsis:
>> "TetriNET is a console multiplayer online Tetris game for up to six
>people."
>> 
>> There is a gnome version also. We should state clearly that this is a
>> console/text-mode client.
>
>What does 'WP' mean?
>
>> As an aside I did not find a working server anywhere and the homepage
>of
>> the project is dead. There is a possibility to host your own server
>with
>> jetrix though.
>
>I played Tetrinet with someone over a server, but I can't remember what
>the address was.
>
>You can't access the homepage of the project? I can access
>http://tetrinet.or.cz fine. Or do you mean it hasn't been updated in
>ages?
>
>> There could be trademark issues with the name/game also see
>> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Tetris_Company
>
>Regarding the potential trademark issues, both FSF-approved distros
>Parabola and PureOS have Tetrinet in their repositories[1][2], so I
>think it would be acceptable to add it to Guix. And if a copyright
>claim is made in the future it can always be removed.
>
>[1] Tetrinet in Parabola - https://www.parabola.nu/packages/?q=tetrinet
>[2] Tetrinet in PureOS -
>https://software.pureos.net/search_pkg?term=tetrinet
>
>Thanks
>
>On Sat, 23 Feb 2019 07:23:43 +0100, swedebugia <swedebugia <at> riseup.net>
>wrote:
>
>> On 2019-02-23 10:26, swedebugia wrote:
>> > For the sake of making it easy to find when searching synopsies I
>> > suggest you add "game" to the end of yours.
>> > -- 
>> > Sent from my k-9 mail for Android.
>> 
>> having looked it up online I prefer the WP synopsis:
>> "TetriNET is a console multiplayer online Tetris game for up to six
>people."
>> 
>> There is a gnome version also. We should state clearly that this is a
>> console/text-mode client.
>> 
>> As an aside I did not find a working server anywhere and the homepage
>of
>> the project is dead. There is a possibility to host your own server
>with
>> jetrix though.
>> 
>> There could be trademark issues with the name/game also see
>> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Tetris_Company
>> 
>> -- 
>> Cheers Swedebugia

Hi 
I agree with your remarks
WP = wikipedia 

Given that there is no pgp signed tarball or even a checksum on that page,  have you asked the maintainer about this and verified that you got the code unaltered? 
-- 
Sent from my k-9 mail for Android.

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