Fwd: Parallel Realities Games have non-free content

[Matthew Johnson]

On Sun Aug 24 15:20, Miriam Ruiz wrote:
> Forwarding this mail from the Fedora Games Mailing List, just in case.
> 
> This probably means that the game starfighter might need to have some
> of its graphics replaced or to be removed from the archive and the
> others (blobwars, blobandconquer and viruskiller) might have need to
> have music and sounds removed/replaced. We might want to have a look
> on what Fedora does with those packages.
> 
> blobandconquer's copyright file says:
> All music and sound effects contained within this game are taken from various
> freely accessible internet websites. In all cases this music and sound is
> assumed to be placed within the public domain and therefore free to distribute.
> [Parallel Realities] accepts no responsibility for audio contain herein that
> was made freely available without the consent of the owner.  All character
> names used within the game are copyright and/or trademarks of the respective
> owners. They are not in any way associated with either Blob Wars: Blob and
> Conquer or Parallel Realities.

I agree that this is not sufficient to assume a grant of copyright from
the author and hence noone has the right to distribute.

I'm very surprised it made it past the FTP masters.

Matt
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Matthew Johnson
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