On Thu, Sep 23, 2004 at 06:15:23PM -0400, Glenn Maynard wrote: > On Thu, Sep 23, 2004 at 12:06:53PM -0700, Josh Triplett wrote: > > As an mildly-related aside: what is the policy on short snippets of > > material, presumably included under some variant of Fair Use? I know of > > one package (fillets-ng) which contains a very brief clip (about a > > second, I think) constructed from a couple of images from "The Simpsons". > > Since Debian can't depend on free use (since many jurisdictions don't > have it), it shouldn't be distributing anything based on it. This > sounds like a bug.
On some more reflection, I can't see how including images from the Simpsons in a game is covered under Fair Use, either ... -- Glenn Maynard
