On Mon, 2012-04-09 at 23:04 +0200, Martin Erik Werner wrote: > 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. > Hmm, I noticed that they do in fact mention Ri-li at the very end of the Acknowledgements.pdf (inside Resources/ in the mac version) The document goes as follows: ### Acknowledgements Portions of this jalada Software may utilize the following copyrighted material, the use of which is hereby acknowledged. (... Licenses of all included toolkits, SDL, etc.) License of Ri-li Copyright (c) 2006 Dominique Roux-Serret. All rights reserved. (GPLv2 text follows) Portions of this jalada Software may utilize the following copyrighted material, the use of which is hereby acknowledged. ### I'm guessing that this hardly counts as an offer for source though, so the issues mentioned above still stands :/ -- Martin Erik Werner <martinerikwerner@gmail.com>
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