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and subject line Re: Bug#934975: etw: Borderline copyright violation in team
selection graphics
has caused the Debian Bug report #934975,
regarding etw: Borderline copyright violation in team selection graphics
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Package: etw
Version: 3.6+svn162-5
Severity: serious
Tags: upstream
Justification: Policy 2.3
Dear Maintainer,
Eat the Whistle has some graphics that are clearly ripped off existing
copyrighted works.
To list some, the splash screen is "inspired" by the packaging of a snack by
Kinder and the characters in the team selection screen are clearly "inspired",
if not completely ripped off, the following media: Wolverine from the X-Men,
Kenshiro from Hokuto no Ken, Muttley from Wacky Races, Seiya from Saint Seiya.
Plus, two designs are strongly inspired by The Simpsons and Captain Tsubasa,
and I couldn't identify the other characters but it's likely that they too are
"inspired" by those media.
I believe etw harms Debian's legal status and reputation, and as such I ask for
its removal from the official repos unless those graphics are replaced with
properly licensed ones.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: bullseye/sid
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 4.19.0-5-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=
(charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
LSM: AppArmor: enabled
Versions of packages etw depends on:
ii etw-data 3.6+svn162-5
ii libc6 2.28-10
ii libglib2.0-0 2.60.6-2
ii libgtk2.0-0 2.24.32-3
ii libsdl1.2debian 1.2.15+dfsg2-4
etw recommends no packages.
etw suggests no packages.
-- no debconf information
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Am 17.08.19 um 16:29 schrieb Fabio Pesari:
> Package: etw
> Version: 3.6+svn162-5
> Severity: serious
> Tags: upstream
> Justification: Policy 2.3
>
> Dear Maintainer,
>
> Eat the Whistle has some graphics that are clearly ripped off existing
> copyrighted works.
>
> To list some, the splash screen is "inspired" by the packaging of a snack by
> Kinder and the characters in the team selection screen are clearly "inspired",
> if not completely ripped off, the following media: Wolverine from the X-Men,
> Kenshiro from Hokuto no Ken, Muttley from Wacky Races, Seiya from Saint Seiya.
> Plus, two designs are strongly inspired by The Simpsons and Captain Tsubasa,
> and I couldn't identify the other characters but it's likely that they too are
> "inspired" by those media.
>
> I believe etw harms Debian's legal status and reputation, and as such I ask
> for
> its removal from the official repos unless those graphics are replaced with
> properly licensed ones.
I disagree with your assumption that etw violates Debian Policy 2.3. You
are obviously confusing the term copyright and trademark. First of all
etw is licensed under the GPL and it was first released more than 20
years ago. The GPL is a DFSG-compliant license, that means etw is
eligible to be shipped in Debian. If you believe that the original
author infringes the rights of another party then you should contact
both parties first before you ask to remove a package from Debian. You
must provide proof that Debian is legally required to remove etw from
its mirrors. Just claiming that you think something is inspired by
something is not a Policy 2.3 violation. In fact there are a lot of
packages in Debian that replicate other well known games or applications
but that does not mean that we have to remove them because they are
independent creations of their own and their license grants all the
freedoms we require.
Thus I am going to close this bug report as not-a-bug.
Markus Koschany
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