Trademarks on cars...

[vdriftfan]

Hello. I think I know a way to keep everybody happy. Since trademarks are such a big issue but some gamers really insist on having real car names, I 'developed' a way to circumvent this issue. In the configuration file for each car make a field for the car name that the game code uses for example: M7, so there won't be any issues with the network multiplayer recognizing the car and another field with the name to be displayed in-game. By default this would be also M7 but if a user wants he can just edit this field to the desired name. Manual labor but worth it. This should be categorized as a community/fanmade mod so there should be no legal problems. Also about the logos: Make them as very simple gibberish 3d meshes that a user can replace with own content. So in the end the game ships as an open source trademark free game but thanks to it's open architecture it can be moded to a users own liking.
If there is still a problem with this forgive me for wasting bandwidth.