Re: [gNewSense-users] Re: Update on non-free package blobwars

[Sam Geeraerts]

Yavor Doganov wrote:
> Dara Adib wrote:
> > I should note Debian bug 495484[1] was filed about the non-free
> > status of the music and sounds. This resulted in a new version of
> > the blobwars package, 1.08-dfsg-1, which removed all music and sound
> > files from the upstream tarball and made a separate blobwars-data
> > binary package.
>
> If there is no license to distribute the sounds, they can't be even in
> Debian's non-free section.

I agree. And the same goes for the graphics. It says in the Debian bug:

According to upstream it's just the music and sound effects that was 
taken from online resources, the graphics were created by upstream.

Just because they created the graphics themselves doesn't mean they're 
giving anybody else distribution or any other rights. The FAQ 
specifically says that _source code_ is GPL, _resources_ are Non Free. I 
would say that the graphics are resources, thus they are Non Free.

> If there is permission to distribute them (say, with no modifications
> or other restrictions) it is OK for gNewSense to include them under
> certain conditions as per the free distro guidelines.
>
> (I don't have time to check this right now, though.)