Bug#501508: openarena-data: openarena contains materials from non-free sources

Mike Swanson mikeonthecomputer at gmail.com
Tue Oct 7 22:27:28 UTC 2008


Package: openarena-data
Version: 0.7.7-1
Severity: serious
Justification: Policy 2.1


OpenArena contains characters derived from copyrighted sources without
permission.  Namely, the Doomguy (called Sarge in OpenArena) from id
Software's Doom series and Quake III Arena, and an anime character
which in-game is called Kyonshi (do not know the name of the show,
however I noticed after seeing a clip on YouTube from the show:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hv4U8OJMydk ).  Just because the original
materials weren't used, this is still derivation of copyrighted sources
and illegal.


-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.26-1-686 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

openarena-data depends on no packages.

Versions of packages openarena-data recommends:
ii  openarena                  0.7.7+dfsg1-1 fast-paced 3D first-person shooter

openarena-data suggests no packages.

-- no debconf information





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