4:28 p.m.
Hi,
this is the reply I got from Fedora Legal about xBill. I will
submit it to RPM Fusion shortly, but I think it is quite sad that more
and more things cannot go into Fedora, even an harmless game like this
one :(
Bye,
Andrea.
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From: Tom spot Callaway <tcallawa(a)redhat.com>
Date: Mon, Feb 16, 2009 at 8:45 PM
Subject: Re: [Fedora-legal-list] xBill legal opinion required
To: Rahul Sundaram <sundaram(a)redhat.com>
Cc: fedora-legal-list(a)redhat.com
On 2009-02-16 at 14:42:30 -0500, Rahul Sundaram <sundaram(a)redhat.com> wrote:
Tom "spot" Callaway wrote:
> On 2008-12-26 at 5:50:31 -0500, "Andrea Musuruane"
<musuruan(a)gmail.com>
> wrote:
>> Hi all,
>> I'd like to now if xBill is suitable for inclusion in Fedora:
>>
>> http://www.xbill.org/
>>
>> License, as stated in the man entry, is GPL (no version specified).
>>
>> My concerns regard the use of various logos in the game.
>>
>> Also note that this game has been packaged until 2001 in Red Hat.
>
> Red Hat Legal says this is not acceptable.
Is it because of the artwork? We can get it replaced.
Well, the issue is that the game is clearly disparaging Microsoft and
its marks. I'm not sure any amount of "artwork" replacement will
overcome that.
~spot
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4:53 p.m.
Andrea Musuruane wrote:
From: Tom spot Callaway <tcallawa...>
Well, the issue is that the game is clearly disparaging Microsoft and
its marks. I'm not sure any amount of "artwork" replacement will
overcome that.
WTF, since when is parody illegal? It's even an exception to copyright and
trademark law.
Kevin Kofler
10:31 a.m.
sorry for reviving this ...
> Well, the issue is that the game is clearly disparaging
> Microsoft and its marks. I'm not sure any amount of
> "artwork" replacement will overcome that.
WTF, since when is parody illegal? It's even an exception to
copyright and trademark law.
Kevin Kofler
... but I just came over this: http://xkcd.com/78/
- couldn't resist posting the link :-)
K.
p.s. see the image title attribute if you don't get it
11:11 p.m.
Kevin Kofler wrote:
Andrea Musuruane wrote:
> From: Tom spot Callaway <tcallawa...>
> Well, the issue is that the game is clearly disparaging Microsoft and
> its marks. I'm not sure any amount of "artwork" replacement will
> overcome that.
>
WTF, since when is parody illegal? It's even an exception to copyright and
trademark law.
Tom Callaway already answered that in Fedora legal list. Note that
simplistic ideas around parody don't really meet up to the legal
constraints around the concept.
Rahul
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