Fwd: [Fedora-legal-list] xBill legal opinion required

[Andrea Musuruane]

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.



---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Tom spot Callaway <tcallawa at redhat.com>
Date: Mon, Feb 16, 2009 at 8:45 PM
Subject: Re: [Fedora-legal-list] xBill legal opinion required
To: Rahul Sundaram <sundaram at redhat.com>
Cc: fedora-legal-list at redhat.com


On 2009-02-16 at 14:42:30 -0500, Rahul Sundaram <sundaram at redhat.com> wrote:
> Tom "spot" Callaway wrote:
>> On 2008-12-26 at 5:50:31 -0500, "Andrea Musuruane" <musuruan at 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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