Thanks for the clarification, Steve. I think for Ubuntu, this will be for an archive administrator to evaluate the impact of these claims and perform the archive removal operation.
John On Sun, Aug 17, 2008 at 8:35 AM, Stephen Sweeney < [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Well, I am the developer of the games, so I know what the context issues > may be. > > Starfighter has graphics that may be copyrighted. It also has music from > the ModArchive and sound effects from a number of fully unverifiable > sources. > Metal Blob Solid has music from the ModArchive and sound effects from a > number of fully unverifiable sources. > Blob And Conquer has music from the ModArchive and sound effects from a > number of fully unverifiable sources. > Virus Killer has music from the ModArchive and sound effects from a number > of fully unverifiable sources. > > Hope that clear things up. > > Steve > > 2008/8/17 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Thanks for letting us know, Steve. Do you have links to any references >> that confirm these claims? >> >> Thanks, >> John >> On 8/16/08, Stephen Sweeney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> > The offending data is music, sound effects and graphics for all packages >> > (blobwars, blobAndConquer, viruskiller and starfighter). >> > >> > Thanks, >> > >> > Steve >> > >> > 2008/8/16 Guus Sliepen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> > >> >> On Sat, Aug 16, 2008 at 07:02:15PM +0100, Stephen Sweeney wrote: >> >> >> >> > It has been brought to my attention by a Happy Penguin regular, >> >> leileilol, >> >> > that the packages contain resources that are non-free and, in some >> >> > cases, >> >> > ripped from other games and still copyrighted. They should all be >> >> > removed >> >> > immediately to avoid any legal issues. >> >> > >> >> > It would be within the interests of all if we could get these games >> >> removed >> >> > ASAP so that your distributions are not affected by any legal issues. >> >> >> >> Thanks for notifying us! Can you send us more information regarding >> which >> >> files >> >> are non-free and in each case, in what way? If the non-free content >> >> consists of >> >> just for a few images or music files, the Debian way is to remove only >> the >> >> offending content from the upstream source. >> >> >> >> -- >> >> Met vriendelijke groet / with kind regards, >> >> Guus Sliepen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> >> >> >> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- >> >> Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) >> >> >> >> iEYEARECAAYFAkinLogACgkQAxLow12M2ns96wCgsXilSd2mnS5RkJ15cjbyHwro >> >> FkUAnjXsPoLtri3/5W+o1X7Fal8dEFtH >> >> =F7HE >> >> -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- >> >> >> >> >> > >> > >> > -- >> > The Battle for the Solar System >> > http://www.battleforthesolarsystem.com >> > >> > > > > -- > The Battle for the Solar System > http://www.battleforthesolarsystem.com >
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