Dont' cc: me, please continue at debian-legal. Dude, you are opening a can of worms here.
According to openarena pages, both of these models have been created by openarena authors - thus they are not direct copies. http://openarena.wikia.com/wiki/Kyonshi http://openarena.wikia.com/wiki/Grism They do hold resemblance to the originals, yet they are also representative on their generic genres. Exactly how much the resemblance is needed to be a copyright violation is a matter of court to decide. So Just foaming "it looks like a blatant copyright violation to me" isn't very productive. For example, compare Donald duck with "Howard The Duck". Marvel avoided legal action from Disney by merely adding trousers to the character. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Howard_the_Duck > Similarity? They're nearly exactly the same in OpenArena and > Darkstalkers. Funny, the darkstalker char has wings, trousers and boobs jumping out. While the openarena character has none of those. Rest of the features sans face are directly from the Jiang Shi genre. Which, the original submitter failed to research before filing a grave bug on copying vampires: http://disraeli-demon.blogspot.com/2007/12/stickleback-englands-glory-in-2000ad.html But this IMHO discussion needs some more experienced input than the original reporters gut feeling. So over and out for me.. -- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]