About legal issues with content from upstream (rhbz #1157664)
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Analysing of Changelogs shows the following:
Debian does not support robbo.ttf for legal reason, so why should we.
-Deleted fonts.
Debian knows a bug with oily skin causing crashes for people.
(Debian #614042)
-Deleted oily.
Upstream introduced skins with v0.64 as a feature.
Original: "Original GNU Robbo skin based on the Atari Robbo graphics."
-NOT_LEGAL
Oily: "… based on the orginal … graphics … oily effect."
-NOT_LEGAL
Tronic: "Newly created skin with some vintage science fiction influences."
-OK??
-Deleted wrong skins cause feature is not compatible with our policy.
Upstream introduced sound with v0.64 as a feature.
-Deleted sounds and disabled support. Comply with policy.
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Tom "spot" Callaway 2014-10-30 20:02:18 CET
Looking this over as it is currently, I think you can keep:
data/sounds/free
and delete:
data/sounds/default and data/sounds/oily
(Right now, it looks like you're deleting data/sounds entirely)
Everything else (with the removals already done) looks okay.
Lifting FE-Legal.
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Thomas Spura from 2014-10-26 20:27:22 CET)
The data subpackage has it's own LICENCE file which reads:
Creative Commons Sampling Plus 1.0
According to [1] this is a bad license, which is "NOT OKAY for Fedora".
Is it possible to use the game without music? Maybe that's an option to go,
otherwise maybe RPMFusion...
The fonts have also a separate license which reads:
Bitstream Vera Fonts Copyright and Arev Fonts Copyright
whereas the first seems to be fine and you MUST name the license of the
subpackage "Bitstream Vera", you must ask the fedora-legal list for the
other one to be added to the list...
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Andrea Musuruane 2014-10-26 22:10:57 CET
You should not trust the LINCENSE-ttf font. They refer to
"Bitstream Vera Fonts" but one of the included fonts do not belong to these.
data/skins/oily/robbo.ttf and data/skins/original/ robbo.ttf are the same
font: "ZapfHumnst L2 Bold Italic".
It is "Copyright 1990-1996 Bitstream Inc. All rights reserved.".
This is a nonfree font.
/data/skins/tronic/robbo.ttf is "DejaVu Sans Condensed".
It is free (license is Bitstream Vera and Public Domain) and it is already
packaged in Fedora in the dejavu-sans-fonts package. To use this font the
packager should replace the installed font with a symlink to the font
provided by dejavu-sans-fonts.
More info about the legal status here:
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=553911
I know it is possible not to use the fonts and use a pixmap font that has
no licensing problem. You have to enable its use in the Makefile.
I think the game is even better because it has a better "retro" feel with
the pixmap font.
The (c) Bitstream fonts must be removed from the source in Fedora though.