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

[Mike Swanson]

On Wed, Oct 8, 2008 at 1:59 PM, Steve Cotton
<steve0001 at s.cotton.clara.co.uk> wrote:
> There's a load of 1980s horror movies with these sort of vampires
> in.  I'm not that sort of movie buff, so haven't seen many of them.
>
> IMO, even if the Darkstalkers character is the reason that a
> Chinese vampire is included in Open Arena; the similarity is
> largely because of the monster genre, rather than a copy from
> Darkstalkers.

Similarity? They're nearly exactly the same in OpenArena and
Darkstalkers.  That's not just a vague monster design...

> Doom is not the exclusive origin of space marines; even if all the
> existing artwork is fantasy.

Yes, I believe that was my original point.  Just doing a google search
for "space marine" shows tons of designs people have come up with that
do not look like Doom's protaganist.

> Upstream's homepage currently states that the latest version has
> been pulled due to a copyvio.  That's version 0.8, not the 0.7.7
> that's in Debian.  LeiLol seems to be in the right, actively
> sorting out a copyvio as its reached her attention.

This is worth looking into, however the news item states new materials
in 0.8.0 were copyright-violating, and the resources I was mentioning
are pre-0.7.7