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From: | Sam Geeraerts |
Subject: | Re: [gNewSense-users] (nonfree) blobwars family of games |
Date: | Sat, 27 Sep 2008 13:12:04 +0200 |
User-agent: | Mozilla-Thunderbird 2.0.0.14 (X11/20080509) |
Karl Goetz wrote:
Hi all, I know some of you will have already seen this, but it seemed relevent enough to post here. Sorry if its already come through, I didnt notice it.It is with much regret that I have to ask you to remove the following packages from your repositories,blobwars (Blob Wars : Metal Blob Solid) starfighter (Project: Starfighter) blobAndConquer (Blob Wars : Blob And Conquer) viruskiller (Virus Killer) It has been brought to my attention ... [the games] ... should all be removed immediately to avoid any legal issues.From https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-motu/2008-August/004432.html , but i can dig out all the other references if you'd like them too. kk (CCing gNS as we only dealt with blobwars).
I haven't followed this issue too closely, but I would like to again bring the graphics to the attention. I seems that Debian has only removed music and sounds [1]. Yet, as far as I know, only the source code explicitly has a license. The thread on Happy Penguin [2] says:
---So I got an email reply form Scarfy, in which I got clarification on what needs replacement:
Quote: So, to clarify, the source code, data sets and graphics are Free. The rest is unknown (but as far as I'm concerned, I'm just redistributing assets that were already available freely). ---But Free for Scarfy may not mean Free for Debian or gNewSense. I haven't looked at all the bug reports in detail, but I hope someone has taken this into account.
[1] http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=495484[2] http://www.happypenguin.org/forums/viewtopic.php?t=4725&postdays=0&postorder=asc&start=30
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