From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
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Subject: Re: Tetris(R) (Re: Sound DMA)
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On Wed, 22 Dec 1999, Damian Yerrick 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.

I doubt if this danger is real.  Emacs comes with a Tetris
implementation, called Tetris, since 1997.  Since the Emacs maintainer
is *extremely* sensitive to legal issues, I cannot imagine that this
aspect was not thoroughly investigated, before Tetris was included in
the Emacs distribution.

Perhaps marketing a stand-alone game and calling it Tetris could be a
problem.  But simply calling your game that name in a news group is
not.