Hey Christian, et al,
Yeah, the sounds probably included a lot of samples from the real Defender arcade game, probably taken from a sound archive FTP site, back in the day. The Bill Gates image was based on art from Slashdot; and yeah, somehow, they gave me permission to use it. I've been meaning to redo Defendguin some day -- basically an art/sound refresh. When I do, I'll make sure to let you all know. For now, yeah, drop it. Thanks! -bill! On Sat, Aug 17, 2019 at 07:50:21PM +0200, Christian T. Steigies wrote: > Hi Bill, > On Sat, Aug 17, 2019 at 05:15:08PM +0200, Fabio Pesari wrote: > > Package: defendguin-data > > Version: 0.0.12-7 > > Severity: serious > > Tags: upstream > > Justification: Policy 2.3 > > > > Dear Maintainer, > > > > defendguin-data uses real-life photographs of Bill Gates (from the 70s, I > > believe) in the defendguin/images/evilbill directory. I doubt those are > > released under a free license. > > > > The audio files in the defendguin/sounds directory are also suspicious, they > > sound like they have been sampled from sources whose copyright status isn't > > clear. > > > > For this reason, I think these files should not be distributed by Debian. > > > > > > > > -- System Information: > > Debian Release: bullseye/sid > > APT prefers testing > > APT policy: (500, 'testing') > > Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) > > > > Kernel: Linux 4.19.0-5-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores) > > Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE= > > (charmap=UTF-8) > > Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash > > Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) > > LSM: AppArmor: enabled > > > > -- no debconf information > > In the AUTHORS file you write "used with permission" for the "photo". > I don't see this mentioned under the Sound Effects. Do you think there is a > copyright problem or not? If there is a problem, I would probably just drop > the package from Debian, I don't think its worth the effort to create new > images and sound files for this old package. > > thanks, > Christian > -- -bill! Sent from my computer
