Re: Legal opinion : partly non free graphics
On Tue, Jan 5, 2010 at 3:48 PM, John Arntz <jsarntz(a)yahoo.com> wrote:
I'm not a Lawyer or anything, but I would pose this question: Are
the non-free graphics allowed to be redistributed? If the license states that they are,
but can't be altered, or used for commercial purposes then I would be inclined to say
they are permissible as a non-free package, but if it says they cannot be redistributed at
all, then we can't use them. If you do intend to clean it up by substituting free
artwork, audio, etc. and that would make it Fedora eligible, the Fedora Artwork team may
be able to help with making free replacements.
Upstream is already working in replacing the graphics but it is a slow
process and it seems there are very few people interested in helping.
I don't know what's the status of the original nonfree graphics. It
might be daunting to know because the original game is quite old
having been released almost two decades ago.
BTW, I think that this is the same issue xrick has and xrick is in RPM
Fusion nonfree.
http://www.bigorno.net/xrick/download.html
Bye,
Andrea.