On Sun, 2012-04-08 at 09:46 +0200, Ronny Standtke wrote: > Hi > > I just noticed that ri-li is sold as a commercial game here: > http://www.jalada.eu/cms/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=162&Itemid=239&lang=en_EU > > Is this a GPL violation or do they have your permission? > > It looks like they are doing this with a whole set of FOSS games: > http://www.geardownload.com/developers/jalada-gmbh.html > > Best regards > > Ronny > Hi, It looks, at least from the contents in the mac version, like they are not distributing any source code for ri-li, which would be a GPL issue, unless an offer for source is embedded into the application binary... I'm unable to confirm, but their separation into "demo" and "full version", in addition to their wikipedia article[0] (presumably written by themselves), does indicate that they are using a shareware trial-verison licensing scheme for distribution, which again is a GPL issue. It would probably be prudent to, as a first step, contact the company and ask them, nicely, to provide the correct license with their applications, along with source code for the game and their modifications. Pointing out that they are free to distribute, or sell, the software as long as they fulfill the GPL. [0]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jalada_GmbH I'm forwarding this to the debian-devel-games list since that's our more 'discussive' list. -- Martin Erik Werner <martinerikwerner@gmail.com>
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