Removal of illegal packages

[John Dong]

Thanks for the clarification, Steve. I think for Ubuntu, this will be for an
archive administrator to evaluate the impact of these claims and perform the
archive removal operation.

John

On Sun, Aug 17, 2008 at 8:35 AM, Stephen Sweeney <
stephen.j.sweeney at googlemail.com> wrote:

> Well, I am the developer of the games, so I know what the context issues
> may be.
>
> Starfighter has graphics that may be copyrighted. It also has music from
> the ModArchive and sound effects from a number of fully unverifiable
> sources.
> Metal Blob Solid has music from the ModArchive and sound effects from a
> number of fully unverifiable sources.
> Blob And Conquer has music from the ModArchive and sound effects from a
> number of fully unverifiable sources.
> Virus Killer has music from the ModArchive and sound effects from a number
> of fully unverifiable sources.
>
> Hope that clear things up.
>
> Steve
>
> 2008/8/17 <jdong at ubuntu.com>
>
> Thanks for letting us know, Steve. Do you have links to any references
>> that confirm these claims?
>>
>> Thanks,
>> John
>> On 8/16/08, Stephen Sweeney <stephen.j.sweeney at googlemail.com> wrote:
>> > The offending data is music, sound effects and graphics for all packages
>> > (blobwars, blobAndConquer, viruskiller and starfighter).
>> >
>> > Thanks,
>> >
>> > Steve
>> >
>> > 2008/8/16 Guus Sliepen <guus at debian.org>
>> >
>> >> On Sat, Aug 16, 2008 at 07:02:15PM +0100, Stephen Sweeney wrote:
>> >>
>> >> > It has been brought to my attention by a Happy Penguin regular,
>> >> leileilol,
>> >> > that the packages contain resources that are non-free and, in some
>> >> > cases,
>> >> > ripped from other games and still copyrighted. They should all be
>> >> > removed
>> >> > immediately to avoid any legal issues.
>> >> >
>> >> > It would be within the interests of all if we could get these games
>> >> removed
>> >> > ASAP so that your distributions are not affected by any legal issues.
>> >>
>> >> Thanks for notifying us! Can you send us more information regarding
>> which
>> >> files
>> >> are non-free and in each case, in what way? If the non-free content
>> >> consists of
>> >> just for a few images or music files, the Debian way is to remove only
>> the
>> >> offending content from the upstream source.
>> >>
>> >> --
>> >> Met vriendelijke groet / with kind regards,
>> >>      Guus Sliepen <guus at debian.org>
>> >>
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>> >
>> > --
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