Bug#946736: RM: defendguin -- RoM; questionable copyright status
On Sat, Dec 14, 2019 at 08:47:41PM -0500, John Scott wrote: > Package: ftp.debian.org > Severity: normal > X-Debbugs-CC: debian-rele...@lists.debian.org, n...@sonic.net > Control: block 934976 by -1 > > The maintainer and author acknowledges that the game uses Bill Gates's > likeness and likely non-free audio samples from the Defender arcade game > and requests that it be removed. See #934976 > > The package is in unstable, Buster, Stretch, and Jessie. FYI, I've been (slowly) working to replace the suspect content, and will eventually have a fresh source tarball available. I don't have an ETA, however. -- -bill! Sent from my computer
Bug#934976: defendguin-data: Bill Gates images used, questionable copyright status
Hey Christian, et al, Yeah, the sounds probably included a lot of samples from the real Defender arcade game, probably taken from a sound archive FTP site, back in the day. The Bill Gates image was based on art from Slashdot; and yeah, somehow, they gave me permission to use it. I've been meaning to redo Defendguin some day -- basically an art/sound refresh. When I do, I'll make sure to let you all know. For now, yeah, drop it. Thanks! -bill! On Sat, Aug 17, 2019 at 07:50:21PM +0200, Christian T. Steigies wrote: > Hi Bill, > On Sat, Aug 17, 2019 at 05:15:08PM +0200, Fabio Pesari wrote: > > Package: defendguin-data > > Version: 0.0.12-7 > > Severity: serious > > Tags: upstream > > Justification: Policy 2.3 > > > > Dear Maintainer, > > > > defendguin-data uses real-life photographs of Bill Gates (from the 70s, I > > believe) in the defendguin/images/evilbill directory. I doubt those are > > released under a free license. > > > > The audio files in the defendguin/sounds directory are also suspicious, they > > sound like they have been sampled from sources whose copyright status isn't > > clear. > > > > For this reason, I think these files should not be distributed by Debian. > > > > > > > > -- System Information: > > Debian Release: bullseye/sid > > APT prefers testing > > APT policy: (500, 'testing') > > Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) > > > > Kernel: Linux 4.19.0-5-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores) > > Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE= > > (charmap=UTF-8) > > Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash > > Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) > > LSM: AppArmor: enabled > > > > -- no debconf information > > In the AUTHORS file you write "used with permission" for the "photo". > I don't see this mentioned under the Sound Effects. Do you think there is a > copyright problem or not? If there is a problem, I would probably just drop > the package from Debian, I don't think its worth the effort to create new > images and sound files for this old package. > > thanks, > Christian > -- -bill! Sent from my computer
Bug#732698: gemdropx: Fails to start (Failure loading sampleinfo)
Sadly, I do not. We may need to convert or replace the XM file. I just tried on my Kubuntu 13.10 and got the same error. -bill! On Sat, Dec 21, 2013 at 05:54:13PM +0100, Christian T. Steigies wrote: Hi, thanks for the report. On Fri, Dec 20, 2013 at 02:00:16PM +0100, Hans Joachim Desserud wrote: Package: gemdropx Version: 0.9-6 Severity: important Dear Maintainer, When I attempt to start gemdropx, I only get the following error message: $ gemdropx Couldn't load /usr/share/games/gemdropx/sounds/2force.xm: Failure loading sampleinfo Just in case, I double-checked with the frozen-bubble package which also use libsdl-mixer1.2 for sound and that works fine. -- System Information: Debian Release: jessie/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 3.11-2-686-pae (SMP w/1 CPU core) Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Versions of packages gemdropx depends on: ii libc62.17-97 ii libsdl-mixer1.2 1.2.12-9 ii libsdl1.2debian 1.2.15-8 gemdropx recommends no packages. gemdropx suggests no packages. -- no debconf information -- mvh / best regards Hans Joachim http://desserud.org Strange, I am pretty sure that gemdropx was working when I uploaded the package, two years ago... I get the same message now, I can play the file with timidity, but gemdropx can not play it, even after rebuilding it for unstable. Since gemdropx has not changed, I suspect the problem is with sdl-mixer. Bill, do you have an idea what could be wrong? Christian -- -bill! Sent from my computer -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Bug#319425: [debian-edu] Bug#319425: riva128 requires 15 bit color but gets set to 16
On Mon, Oct 17, 2005 at 04:42:30PM +0200, Jonas Smedegaard wrote: I am one of the discover maintainers too, and I have no idea how to detect it. As far as I know, discover (v1 and v2) are unable to detect this. :) Arrgh. Too bad - I am out if good(?) ideas then :-( Perhaps file a bug with X.org that asks them to provide a fallback color depth, so if 16bpp doesn't work, there could be an alternative line that tells X to try 15bpp next. THEN die if it can't do that, either. :^) Just an idea. -- -bill! [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.newbreedsoftware.com/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Bug#218908: [debian-jr] Re: Candidates for removal
On Thu, Sep 29, 2005 at 01:46:37PM -0500, Sam Hart wrote: Well, I can't help on the font issues (I have contacted Jesse Andrews and some of the others who worked on the project after me to see if they can point me to where they came from... most likely external contributors)... however, for the images I'd be more than happy to find or make replacements to any ones which are really questionable. OOC, is Tux Typing using TTF fonts directly, or pre-rendered bitmaps? I'm guessing the former, for i18n reasons. If the latter, however, some fonts allow _use_ (as in, you can make something with the font and ship that), but not redistribution. (Typically, font licenses have restrictions all over the board, and the licenses are poorly written. Not to mention the oodles of free font sites out there that ship raw TTF files w/o any license info... they just seem to download font ZIPs from everywhere, unzip the whole load of them, and delete everything but the TTFs. Idiots!) Of course, I inadvertendly used some Apple Macintosh font which I found sitting (as a TTF file) in some IceWM theme, or something. The Debian folks pointed that out to me, and I directed them to the theme, which was also being dist'd by Debian. ;^) -bill! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Bug#318835: workrave: Workrave isn't available in KDE menu (except under Debian, where it has no icon)
Package: workrave
Version: 1.6.2-1
Severity: minor
When I first installed workrave I could not immediately find it in KDE's
K menu. (I expected it would be under Utilities.) I finally found it
under K-Debian-Tools. Note, though, that it lacks an icon in that
menu.
I am using KDE 3.4.1 from alioth.debian.org under Debian Testing
('etch').
Thanks!
-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.8-2-686
Locale: LANG=en_US, LC_CTYPE=en_US (charmap=ISO-8859-1)
Versions of packages workrave depends on:
ii libart-2.0-2 2.3.17-1Library of functions for 2D graphi
ii libatk1.0-0 1.10.1-2The ATK accessibility toolkit
ii libbonobo2-0 2.8.1-2 Bonobo CORBA interfaces library
ii libbonoboui2-0 2.8.1-2 The Bonobo UI library
ii libc62.3.2.ds1-22GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
ii libgcc1 1:4.0.0-9 GCC support library
ii libgconf2-4 2.10.0-2GNOME configuration database syste
ii libgconfmm2.0-1c102 2.0.2-1 C++ wrappers for GConf2 (shared li
ii libglade2-0 1:2.5.1-2 library to load .glade files at ru
ii libglademm2.0-1c102 2.2.0-1.1 C++ wrappers for libglade2 (shared
ii libglib2.0-0 2.6.5-1 The GLib library of C routines
ii libgnet2.0-0 2.0.7-1 GNet network library
ii libgnome2-0 2.8.1-2 The GNOME 2 library - runtime file
ii libgnomecanvas2-02.10.2-2A powerful object-oriented display
ii libgnomecanvasmm2.0-1c10 2.0.1-5 C++ wrappers for libgnomecanvas2 (
ii libgnomemm2.0-1 2.0.1-2 C++ wrappers for libgnome2 (develo
ii libgnomeui-0 2.8.1-3 The GNOME 2 libraries (User Interf
ii libgnomeuimm2.0-12.0.0-5 C++ wrappers for libgnomeui2 (shar
ii libgnomevfs2-0 2.8.4-4 The GNOME virtual file-system libr
ii libgtk2.0-0 2.6.8-1 The GTK+ graphical user interface
ii libgtkmm2.0-1c1022.2.12-1.1 C++ wrappers for GTK+ 2.0 (shared
ii libice6 4.3.0.dfsg.1-14 Inter-Client Exchange library
ii liborbit21:2.12.2-1 libraries for ORBit2 - a CORBA ORB
ii libpanel-applet2-0 2.8.3-1 library for GNOME 2 panel applets
ii libpango1.0-01.8.1-1 Layout and rendering of internatio
ii libpopt0 1.7-5 lib for parsing cmdline parameters
ii libsigc++-1.2-5c102 1.2.5-4 type-safe Signal Framework for C++
ii libsm6 4.3.0.dfsg.1-14 X Window System Session Management
ii libstdc++5 1:3.3.5-13 The GNU Standard C++ Library v3
ii libx11-6 4.3.0.dfsg.1-14 X Window System protocol client li
ii libxml2 2.6.16-7GNOME XML library
ii libxmu6 4.3.0.dfsg.1-14 X Window System miscellaneous util
ii libxtst6 4.3.0.dfsg.1-14 X Window System event recording an
ii xlibs4.3.0.dfsg.1-14 X Keyboard Extension (XKB) configu
ii zlib1g 1:1.2.2-4 compression library - runtime
workrave recommends no packages.
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