Bug#487218: games-thumbnails: unclear copyright concerns

[Miriam Ruiz]

Thanks for this, Jon.

2008/6/22 Jon Dowland <jon+debian-devel-games at alcopop.org>:

> A quick look at the Section: for each package corresponding to each
> thumbnail shows only three (it seems) games outside of main.
>
>        sauerbraten         contrib/games
>        stormbaancoureur    contrib/games
>        warsow              contrib/games

stormbaancoureur should belong to main, so it shouldn't be a problem.
sauerbraten and warsow might be. We can remove them for the moment
until a decision is made.

> Script output attached, some commentary inline here:
>
> area2048, biniax2, excellent-bifurcation, garden-of-coloured-lights,
> gradle-unison
>        not actually in Debian at all yet; is it worth carrying the
>        screenshot until they are? Are they likely to be uploaded in
>        this release?

All of them are free, I just didn't have time to upload them but they
should be almost finished in SVN. Feel free to finish them if you have
time and are in the mood (I mean everyone in the team). I don't know
if they'll get into Lenny or not, but definitely in Leny++. In any
case they're DFSG-free so there shouldn't be any legal problem with
them. It won't hurt to kep them for the moment. I guess biniax2 might
be ready for uploas, btw.

> billiardgl, dodgindiamond, tuxracer
>        the package name is billiard-gl. I tried moving billiardgl.png
>        to billiard-gl.png but goplay would not display the thumbnail
>        for me in either case. (similarly for dodgindiamond =>
>        dodgindiamond2; fillets => fillets-ng; tuxracer =>
>        extremetuxracer)

Funny, I´ll have to check this.

> balazarbros
>        can't find this in the svn repo nor the package repositories

Dunno about it. If it is not in Debian and won't be in the near
future, we might perfectly get rid of it.

Thanks Jon. For the moment I guess we can remove those that are not
DFSG-free until we decide differently. I might try to do something
about the copyright notices for the games, but I´m not exactly sure
what. My first thought might be to create a script that downloads the
Debian copyright notices for all those games and incude them all, but
I feel it might be a waste of time and space, and ot sure if it will
really make sense. In any case, being DFSG-free games, I don't think
there's a legal risk in including the screenshots (citing the package
name) even if no copyright notice in the thumbnail packages is
included about them (but it being included in their own game packages)
until we decide something better.

Would that make sense?

Greetings,
Miry