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Another kind of cool games are computer implementation of pre-computer games, for example [chess](chess.md), backgammon, go or various card games. Such games are very often well tested and fine-tuned gameplay-wise, popular with active communities and therefore fun, yet simple to program with many existing free implementations and good AIs (e.g. GNU chess, GNU go or [Stockfish](stockfish.md)).
## Legal Matter
## Legal Matters
Thankfully gameplay cannot (yet) be copyrighted (or otherwise "protected" by "intellectual property") so we can happily clone proprietary games and so free them. However this must be done carefully as there is a possibility of stepping on other mines, for example violating a *trade dress* (looking too similar visually) or a trade mark (for example you cannot use the word *tetris* as it's owned by some shitty company).
Thankfully gameplay mechanisms cannot (yet) be [copyrighted](copyright.md) (however some can sadly be [patented](patent.md)) so we can mostly happily [clone](clone.md) proprietary games and so free them. However this must be done carefully as there is a possibility of stepping on other mines, for example violating a [*trade dress*](trade_dress.md) (looking too similar visually) or a [trade mark](trade_mark.md) (for example you cannot use the word *tetris* as it's owned by some shitty company).
Trademarks have been known to cause problems in the realm of libre games, for example in the case of Nexuiz which had to rename to Xonotic after its original creator copyrighted the name and started to make trouble.
Trademarks have been known to cause problems in the realm of libre games, for example in the case of Nexuiz which had to rename to Xonotic after its original creator copyrighted the name and started to make trouble.
## Some Nice Gaymes
[Anarch](anarch.md) is an example of a game trying to strictly follow the [less retarded](lrs.md) principles. [SAF](saf.md) is a less retarded game library/fantasy console which comes with some less retarded games.