Re: Remakes of older games

2007-05-16 Thread Francesco Poli
On Tue, 15 May 2007 17:42:05 -0600 Wesley J. Landaker wrote: On Tuesday 15 May 2007 16:07:04 Francesco Poli wrote: [...] If the remake copies copyrighted elements from the other game (characters, story/plot, dialogs, or, worse, graphics/sounds), [...] ^^ Remember

Remakes of older games

2007-05-15 Thread Miriam Ruiz
Hi, I want to package some games who happen to be remakes of older 8-bit games: http://www.masoftware.es/ I've already talked to upstream and they're licensing them under GPL, so no problem about the license. There are also other programs and games in the repository which are more or less

Re: Remakes of older games

2007-05-15 Thread Francesco Poli
On Tue, 15 May 2007 19:44:41 +0200 Miriam Ruiz wrote: Hi, I want to package some games who happen to be remakes of older 8-bit games: http://www.masoftware.es/ I've already talked to upstream and they're licensing them under GPL, so no problem about the license. Well, it must be seen

Re: Remakes of older games

2007-05-15 Thread Wesley J. Landaker
On Tuesday 15 May 2007 16:07:04 Francesco Poli wrote: On Tue, 15 May 2007 19:44:41 +0200 Miriam Ruiz wrote: I've already talked to upstream and they're licensing them under GPL, so no problem about the license. Well, it must be seen *if* upstream actually have the right to license them