Hi Philipp, Philipp Kern wrote: > Yep. Reverse engineering clauses are void in Europe, but as you said > upstream took them verbatim, so this is explicitly prohibited by > Blizzard. So the software is hopefully free, and one component of it > could be used without infringing ToS (Westwood Online). The other, more > used component could only be used in conjunction with illegal material > at own risk. At least we should inform our users that those files are > not obtained by reverse-engineering, but taken verbatim. > > I know that Blizzard wants to protect itself from other Battle.Net > servers (because that would circumvent the copy-protection through the > serial number). So the risk's there. Even an automatic download like > with msttcorefonts might not be ok in this case, at least IMHO and IANAL.
You are right. We also can not distribute the support files in non-free. So what would be an acceptable solution ? An option is keeping pvpgn in main because of the Westwood Online support and informing our users about the support files when they are being downloaded. Radu -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
