Hi Games Packagers, Parallel Realities recently clarified the licensing of their games' data, which were first believed to be GPL'd:
http://www.parallelrealities.co.uk/about/ "Please be aware, however, that game assets are Non Free and should not be distributed as part of Linux or made available within any source repositories that does not allow non-free assets" Therefore the game data are actually non-free. In addition, the author also mentioned at: http://www.happypenguin.org/forums/viewtopic.php?t=4725 that their games contain illegaly redistributed ressources from the Internet, notably graphics and music. The affected games are mainly: - Project: Starfighter - Blob Wars : Metal Blob Solid - Blob Wars : Blob And Conquer - Virus Killer This was reported at Fedora and Debian: https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-games-list/2008-August/msg00027.html http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=496617 After recently discussing it within the Debian Games team, we're in the process of sending removal requests for starfighter and viruskiller. I also copy Guus Sliepen who packaged blob wars so we can discuss removal for them too. I see that the packages are still available in Fedora (I didn't check other distros). Did you reach similar conclusions? Cheers, -- Sylvain from the Debian Games team _______________________________________________ Games mailing list Games@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/games
