ri-li re-wrapped as commercial game by jalada GmbH

[Martin Erik Werner]

On Mon, 2012-04-09 at 23:04 +0200, Martin Erik Werner wrote:
> On Sun, 2012-04-08 at 09:46 +0200, Ronny Standtke wrote:
> > Hi
> > 
> > I just noticed that ri-li is sold as a commercial game here:
> > http://www.jalada.eu/cms/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=162&Itemid=239&lang=en_EU
> > 
> > Is this a GPL violation or do they have your permission?
> > 
> > It looks like they are doing this with a whole set of FOSS games:
> > http://www.geardownload.com/developers/jalada-gmbh.html
> > 
> > Best regards
> > 
> > Ronny
> > 
> 
> Hi,
> It looks, at least from the contents in the mac version, like they are
> not distributing any source code for ri-li, which would be a GPL issue,
> unless an offer for source is embedded into the application binary...
> 
> I'm unable to confirm, but their separation into "demo" and "full
> version", in addition to their wikipedia article[0] (presumably written
> by themselves), does indicate that they are using a shareware
> trial-verison licensing scheme for distribution, which again is a GPL
> issue.
> 
> It would probably be prudent to, as a first step, contact the company
> and ask them, nicely, to provide the correct license with their
> applications, along with source code for the game and their
> modifications. Pointing out that they are free to distribute, or sell,
> the software as long as they fulfill the GPL.
> 
> [0]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jalada_GmbH
> 
> I'm forwarding this to the debian-devel-games list since that's our more
> 'discussive' list.
> 

Hmm, I noticed that they do in fact mention Ri-li at the very end of the
Acknowledgements.pdf (inside Resources/ in the mac version)

The document goes as follows:
###
Acknowledgements
Portions of this jalada Software may utilize the following copyrighted
material, the use of which
is hereby acknowledged.

(... Licenses of all included toolkits, SDL, etc.)

License of Ri-li
Copyright (c) 2006 Dominique Roux-Serret. All rights reserved.
(GPLv2 text follows)


Portions of this jalada Software may utilize the following copyrighted
material, the use of which
is hereby acknowledged.
###

I'm guessing that this hardly counts as an offer for source though, so
the issues mentioned above still stands :/

-- 
Martin Erik Werner <martinerikwerner at gmail.com>
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