Bug#847338: flight-of-the-amazon-queen: non-free restrictions in license conditions

[Ben Finney]

On 07-Dec-2016, Ben Finney wrote:

> The license conditions from the copyright holders restrict
> distributing the work for a fee:
> 
>     2) You may charge a reasonable copying fee for this archive […]
> 
> It is unclear what the copyright holders would consider a “reasonable
> fee”; regardless what that limit would be, it is a restriction on the
> fee that may be charged for redistribution.
> 
>     3) You may not charge a fee for the game itself. This includes
>     reselling the game as an individual item.

As has been pointed out to me (thanks, Ansgar Burchardt) the existing
Artistic License terms contain effectively the same restrictions, in §5:

    5. You may charge a reasonable copying fee for any distribution of
    this Package. […] You may not charge a fee for this Package itself.

    <URL:file:///usr/share/common-licenses/Artistic>

That demonstrates that these restrictions are deemed DFSG-free by
Debian's FTP Masters in works prior and subsequent to this one.


Thank you, maintainers, for responding promptly to bug reports :-)

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Ben Finney <bignose at debian.org>
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