From: "Damian Yerrick" <NOSP AT Msnews@pineight.8m.com>
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"Ghalos" <greg AT holdridge7 DOT freeserve DOT co DOT uk> wrote:
>
> (its only tetris so this probably won't be a problem)

<ot>
It's not Tetris unless you work for The Tetris Company LLC.
Look what happened to DDD's Acid Tetris: Got sued.
Try calling it Ghalters or something like that.

BTW, the first GPL'd program I ever saw was a
T*tr*s clone for DOS called aint (aint is not tetris).
It was written in Turbo Pascal IIRC.
</ot>
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and now you must pay...
...big bucks to your lawyer if you still decide to use "Tetris"
in the name of your game.