Packaging games from Parallel Realities in GNU/Linux distributions

[Sylvain Beucler]

Hello and thanks for your fast answer,


For the sake of clarity, can we assume that the other data, made by
you, are released under the GNU GPL?


(To answer your question, some data such as musics may be illegal to
 merely copy/distribute, that's why we can't include them in
 distributions.)

-- 
Sylvain

On Fri, Sep 11, 2009 at 10:16:23AM +0100, Stephen Sweeney wrote:
> Hmmmm, this could become a game of picking and choosing, but here's how
> things stack up (non-Free)
> 
> Starfighter - Music, sound effects, graphics
> Metal Blob Solid - Music and sound effects
> Blob And Conquer - Music, sound effects and likely some of the textures
> Virus Killer - Music and sound effects
> Legend of Edgar - Music and sound effects
> 
> When I was originally approached about packaging the games for Linux
> distributions, I pointed out that many of the resources were non-Free, but I
> was told that this didn't matter, since the resources could just be packaged
> separately. I guess that wasn't really how it worked out.
> 
> Replacing the resources is certainly an option, but could be very time
> consuming. However, if people are willing to give it a go, then there is no
> harm.
> 
> Hope that helps,
> 
> Steve
> 
> 2009/9/10 Sylvain Beucler <beuc at beuc.net>
> 
> > Hello,
> >
> > I'm part of the FreeDesktop Games group and the Debian Games Team.
> >
> > First, thanks for working on the great Parallel Realities games :)
> >
> >
> > There was some recent debate on the license used on the games data.
> >
> > From what we could gather, most of the sounds and musics were picked
> > from the Internet and so may not be freely distributable - but several
> > people are interested in providing replacements for the sounds, as
> > well as in packaging versions without sound meanwhile, this is being
> > fixed already.
> >
> >
> > So we are wondering about all the other data, that Parallel Realities
> > crafted: the game levels, the texts, the 3D models, the textures, the
> > cutscenes, etc.  Are they released under the GNU GPL, like the game
> > engine?
> >
> > There is a note on the website stating that data is non-free, and
> > we're unsure whether this applies to these data too.  Could you
> > clarify?  Perhaps we can work on a list of files, or we can use
> > categories of works like "everything except the musics and sounds".
> >
> > Ideally, we'd like you to mention it in the source releases and on the
> > website.  Alternatively, mentioning it in this discussion while
> > keeping the mailing list in Cc: would help too.
> >
> > By the way, our question concerns Blob Wars, Blob and Conquer,
> > StarFigher, Virus Killer, but also The Legend of Edgar, which is
> > newer.
> >
> >
> > All the best with your games and books :)
> >
> > --
> > Sylvain
> >
> 
> 
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