Negotiations with Ambrosia seem to be over: ----- Forwarded message from Andrew Welch <andrew@AmbrosiaSW.com> ----- Date: Sun, 26 Mar 2000 16:28:02 -0500 From: Andrew Welch <andrew@AmbrosiaSW.com> To: Christoph Baumann <cgb@debian.org> Subject: Re: Copyright of maelstrom artwork On Sun, 26 Mar 2000, Christoph Baumann wrote: > On Fri, Mar 24, 2000 at 12:33:53PM -0500, Andrew Welch wrote: > > OK, it's non-free then. The artist and Ambrosia maintains a copyright on > > the artwork, and we want to keep it that way. We do not want ships from > > Maelstrom showing up in everyone's brother's game. > Well, I accept that. But somethings confuses me a bit. On your web site > you encourage people to tamper with the game artworks and to distribute > them separate from the game itself and on the other side the copyright > note in the sources of MaelstromGPL disallows this. > Another point is that I don't believe that someone programming his own > game will "steal" the artworks, especially not in the OpenSource > community. I guess we'll have to agree to disagree, then. ----- End forwarded message ----- OK, now should I put maelstrom back to non-free or forget it (which would make me a maintainer without a package...)? Christoph -- * Christoph Baumann * * cbauman1@ix.urz.uni-heidelberg.de * * www.rzuser.uni-heidelberg.de/~cbauman1/welcome.html * * "External Error : INTELLIGENCE not found !" *
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