Hi Daniel, Beneath a Steel Sky was originally a commercial game (released in '94 for DOS and AmigaOS) released by Revolution Software (also behind Broken Sword). The studio donated the source code from the DOS version to the ScummVM project, in 2002, allowing us to create a GPL'ed C/C++ replacement engine.
The copyright notices are left intact, as the COPYRIGHT has not changed. The license permits OSD/DFSG modification, but the copyright of original game resources remains with Revolution. Open Source and Freeware != Public Domain. In Aug 2003, Revolution Software allowed us (the ScummVM team) to release the game as freeware on their behalf, for replay with ScummVM. Ironically, my motivation to negotiate the freeware release with Revolution, was to see at least ONE ScummVM compatible game included in Debian main :) All this history, and collaboration, can be found in the Readme, the ScummVM website, and Google... But I hope this clarifies for you! - Ender Co-Lead, ScummVM http://www.scummvm.org/ On Thu, 2008-05-01 at 13:11 -0400, Daniel Dickinson wrote: > Package: beneath-a-steel-sky > Severity: normal > > > The copyrigh notices at the beginning of the game look suspiciously like > those of a typical game house and and not a free software production. This > should be investigated. > > -- System Information: > Debian Release: lenny/sid > APT prefers testing > APT policy: (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable'), (1, 'experimental'), (1, > 'unstable'), (1, 'testing'), (1, 'stable') > Architecture: i386 (i686) > > Kernel: Linux 2.6.24-1-686 (SMP w/1 CPU core) > Locale: LANG=en_CA.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_CA.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) > Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash > > > > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
