Bug#854679: Clarify license for Beneath a Steel Sky

[Javier Serrano Polo]

X-Debbugs-CC: ender at scummvm.org

El dg 11 de 03 de 2018 a les 04:13 +0800, James 'Ender' Brown va
escriure:
> this issue has been discussed in detail now.

Yet you do not address the problem. Let me write it in another way. Were
the copyright holders of Flight of the Amazon Queen, Lure of the
Temptress, and Drascula aware that "It was pretty obvious [...] that the
license was weak, and there are certainly ways to break the spirit
legally"?

> I deny the license is 'deceptive'.

So there are no known ways to break the spirit legally?

> *You* (the user) have the freedom to act immorally, find a loophole
> and cheat, to intentionally ignore
> the express intent of the license.

Certainly, and the user may have their reasons, but the license allows
that and the designers knew it.

> All parties who actually have any invested stake in the license were
> and are still currently
> satisfied.

As long as authors know that "there are certainly ways to break the
spirit legally", it is fine.

Did they agree to release their games under this license knowing that
individual resale is possible? If they were not aware, would they still
accept this license now? Debian can sell the games, is it that terrible
that users sell the games individually?
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