<div dir="ltr">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.<br><br>John<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">
On Sun, Aug 17, 2008 at 8:35 AM, Stephen Sweeney <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:stephen.j.sweeney@googlemail.com">stephen.j.sweeney@googlemail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<div dir="ltr">Well, I am the developer of the games, so I know what the context issues may be.<br><br>Starfighter has graphics that may be copyrighted. It also has music from the ModArchive and sound effects from a number of fully unverifiable sources.<br>
Metal Blob Solid has music from the ModArchive and sound effects from a number of fully unverifiable sources.<br>Blob And Conquer has music from the ModArchive and sound effects from a number of fully unverifiable sources.<br>
Virus Killer has music from the ModArchive and sound effects from a number of fully unverifiable sources.<br><br>Hope that clear things up.<br><br>Steve<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">2008/8/17 <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:jdong@ubuntu.com" target="_blank">jdong@ubuntu.com</a>></span><div>
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<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">Thanks for letting us know, Steve. Do you have links to any references<br>
that confirm these claims?<br>
<br>
Thanks,<br>
John<br>
<div><div></div><div>On 8/16/08, Stephen Sweeney <<a href="mailto:stephen.j.sweeney@googlemail.com" target="_blank">stephen.j.sweeney@googlemail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
> The offending data is music, sound effects and graphics for all packages<br>
> (blobwars, blobAndConquer, viruskiller and starfighter).<br>
><br>
> Thanks,<br>
><br>
> Steve<br>
><br>
> 2008/8/16 Guus Sliepen <<a href="mailto:guus@debian.org" target="_blank">guus@debian.org</a>><br>
><br>
>> On Sat, Aug 16, 2008 at 07:02:15PM +0100, Stephen Sweeney wrote:<br>
>><br>
>> > It has been brought to my attention by a Happy Penguin regular,<br>
>> leileilol,<br>
>> > that the packages contain resources that are non-free and, in some<br>
>> > cases,<br>
>> > ripped from other games and still copyrighted. They should all be<br>
>> > removed<br>
>> > immediately to avoid any legal issues.<br>
>> ><br>
>> > It would be within the interests of all if we could get these games<br>
>> removed<br>
>> > ASAP so that your distributions are not affected by any legal issues.<br>
>><br>
>> Thanks for notifying us! Can you send us more information regarding which<br>
>> files<br>
>> are non-free and in each case, in what way? If the non-free content<br>
>> consists of<br>
>> just for a few images or music files, the Debian way is to remove only the<br>
>> offending content from the upstream source.<br>
>><br>
>> --<br>
>> Met vriendelijke groet / with kind regards,<br>
>> Guus Sliepen <<a href="mailto:guus@debian.org" target="_blank">guus@debian.org</a>><br>
>><br>
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>><br>
>> iEYEARECAAYFAkinLogACgkQAxLow12M2ns96wCgsXilSd2mnS5RkJ15cjbyHwro<br>
>> FkUAnjXsPoLtri3/5W+o1X7Fal8dEFtH<br>
>> =F7HE<br>
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>><br>
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