Andrea Musuruane wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 5, 2010 at 3:48 PM, John Arntz <[email protected]> wrote:
>> I'm not a Lawyer or anything, but I would pose this question: Are the 
>> non-free graphics allowed to be redistributed? If the license states that 
>> they are, but can't be altered, or used for commercial purposes then I would 
>> be inclined to say they are permissible as a non-free package, but if it 
>> says they cannot be redistributed at all, then we can't use them. If you do 
>> intend to clean it up by substituting free artwork, audio, etc. and that 
>> would make it Fedora eligible, the Fedora Artwork team may be able to help 
>> with making free replacements.
> 
> 
> Upstream is already working in replacing the graphics but it is a slow
> process and it seems there are very few people interested in helping.
>
As suggested above, may be submit the issue to Fedora Artwork team ? I
quickly browsed Artwork and Games SIGs pages, but I didn't see anything
targeted toward helping with graphics replacement though, but I might
just have been too fast.

> I don't know what's the status of the original nonfree graphics. It
> might be daunting to know because the original game is quite old
> having been released almost two decades ago.
> 
There is a ticket opened with upstream about this issue.
http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=2349520&group_id=42434&atid=433129
The last 2 comments are from me. I hope upstream can update us on the
graphics licensing status.

> BTW, I think that this is the same issue xrick has and xrick is in RPM
> Fusion nonfree.
> http://www.bigorno.net/xrick/download.html
>
So either we'll get pushover in RPM Fusion or we'll loose xrick ? hohum...

> Bye,
> 
> Andrea.

Cheers,
Xavier


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