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

2009-02-28 Thread Rahul Sundaram
Kevin Kofler wrote: Andrea Musuruane wrote: From: Tom spot Callaway 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. WTF, since when is parody illegal? It's even an exception to copyri

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

2009-02-25 Thread Karel Volný
sorry for reviving this ... > > 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. > > WTF, since when is parody illegal? It's even an exception to > copyright and trademark law. > >

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

2009-02-17 Thread Kevin Kofler
Andrea Musuruane wrote: > From: Tom spot Callaway > 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. WTF, since when is parody illegal? It's even an exception to copyright and trademark law.

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

2009-02-17 Thread 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 Callawa