[Clipart] Screenshot uploaded: my implementation of Sokoban in SVG. if you like to play: http://www.treebuilder.de/svg/sokoban/sokoban.svgz

Jon Phillips jon at rejon.org
Tue Apr 26 08:54:46 PDT 2005


On Tue, 2005-04-26 at 21:46 +0200, Holger Will wrote:
> Nathan Eady wrote:
> 
> > Jon Phillips wrote:
> >
> >> Is this screenshot legal? It is an implementation of a game, but I'm not
> >> sure if the game is copyrighted.
> >
> >
> > The question I'd be asking is whether any of the artwork in it comes
> > from our collection; if so, then I'd suppose that the person putting
> > said artwork into the game (thus, one of the game's own developers)
> > is familiar with the OCAL and probably submitted the screenshot himself,
> > meaning we would definitely be publishing it in good faith.  (If the
> > developer's boss later objects, we can always remove it.)
> 
> Hi
> i'm  the author of the game.
> i took the penguin from OCAL, deleted some gradients, to reduce size and 
> improve performance.
> all other artwork  will be send as seperate clipart to the collection.

Cool

> i dont believe there is any problem with copyright, because there are 
> several opensource implementations of the game out there.
> if you think the name could be a problem, i could easily change that.
> its just an example to promote mozillas SVG implementation and SVG in 
> general, i dont plan to sell it or anything.
> 
> i also put in a link to openclipart.org to promote OCAL.

Thanks!

> >
> > It's screenshots that clearly don't have any OCAL artwork in them
> > that seem problematic to me.
> 
> 
> 
> i can do an in-game screenshot, to show the use of the clipart more 
> clearly. if its not to much work to change the online screenshot.

That would be great! Thanks for using the clip art from the project.

Jon

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