Bug#757648: Supertuxkart included non-free images.

Vincent Cheng vcheng at debian.org
Wed Sep 10 06:11:04 UTC 2014


close 757648
thanks

On Sun, Sep 7, 2014 at 2:05 AM, Luke Faraone <lfaraone at debian.org> wrote:
> On Sat, Aug 16, 2014 at 04:48:23PM -0700, Vincent Cheng wrote:
>> Is the referenced file (installed as
>> /usr/share/games/supertuxkart/data/gui/difficulty_best.png by
>> supertuxkart-data) distributable or not? I'd like to have an
>> authoritative answer before either closing this bug or pushing back on
>> upstream (who don't agree with the bug reporter [1]).
>
> I'm not aware of a blanket policy on the utilisation of trademarked
> images in Debian. However, I do not believe this usage is problematic
> for Debian. If further clarification is required, questions should be
> directed to SPI's lawyers.

Ack, thanks for your input! Closing this bug report as a result.

(For the record, I agree with upstream's stance on this issue and
don't believe that copyright infringement has taken place here, but I
just wanted to check with ftpmasters for a second, more authoritative
opinion. Thanks again!)

Regards,
Vincent



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