Bug#832062: supertuxkart: source for GPL song Boom_boom_boom.ogg missing

James Cowgill jcowgill at debian.org
Fri Jul 22 10:23:12 UTC 2016


On Thu, 2016-07-21 at 22:59 +0200, Guus Sliepen wrote:
> Source: supertuxkart
> Version: 0.9.2-1
> Severity: serious
> Justification: does not include source code of GPL licensed work
> 
> Supertuxkart contains a song called "Boom boom boom" in Ogg Vorbis
> format. According to the credits and debian/copyright, this song is
> created by Matt Thomas, and is licensed under the GNU GPL v3 or
> later. The source of the .ogg file is missing. Although what consists
> the source of media assets can be unclear, I would like to point out
> that there is also a module tracker version of this song, which can
> reasonably considered the source, as it contains the score, the
> samples used and can be editted in any module editor:
> 
> https://modarchive.org/index.php?request=view_by_moduleid&query=38184

If this is the source then there is a more serious problem. The license
of modarchive modules prohibits modification, so the file would be non-
free for Debian anyway (even if the "source" was included).

https://modarchive.org/index.php?terms-upload
https://modarchive.org/index.php?faq-licensing

James
-------------- next part --------------
A non-text attachment was scrubbed...
Name: signature.asc
Type: application/pgp-signature
Size: 819 bytes
Desc: This is a digitally signed message part
URL: <http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/pkg-games-devel/attachments/20160722/bd4e61b1/attachment.sig>


More information about the Pkg-games-devel mailing list