[gNewSense-users] (nonfree) blobwars family of games

[Sam Geeraerts]

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:

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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).
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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