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has caused the Debian Bug report #501508,
regarding openarena-data: openarena contains materials from non-free sources
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Package: openarena-data
Version: 0.7.7-1
Severity: serious
Justification: Policy 2.1
OpenArena contains characters derived from copyrighted sources without
permission. Namely, the Doomguy (called Sarge in OpenArena) from id
Software's Doom series and Quake III Arena, and an anime character
which in-game is called Kyonshi (do not know the name of the show,
however I noticed after seeing a clip on YouTube from the show:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hv4U8OJMydk ). Just because the original
materials weren't used, this is still derivation of copyrighted sources
and illegal.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.26-1-686 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
openarena-data depends on no packages.
Versions of packages openarena-data recommends:
ii openarena 0.7.7+dfsg1-1 fast-paced 3D first-person shooter
openarena-data suggests no packages.
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Hi,
looking at the links in the bug, it seems that the main character is generic
enough to not
be problematic copyright-wise. This eliminates the main concern here and the
remaining
ones seem too vague to call for pulling the game out of Debian. (Mind you,
RedHat seems to
agree as they have it in e.g. Fedora 9.)
I did bring it to the attention of Miriam (who has the most experience with
game data
copyright and license questions and good connections to the right people for
this stuff),
but at this point, we did not notice a problem.
As such, I am closing this bug for now. if new information indicates that this
is in
error, please do reopen this bug.
Thanks to all participants in the discussion (on- and off-list) for providing
links and
insights.
Kind regards
T.
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Thomas Viehmann, http://thomas.viehmann.net/
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