On Sat, 3 May 2008 15:26:24 -0400 Joe Smith wrote: > > "Wen-Yen Chuang" <caleb@calno.com> wrote in message > [🔎] 481C33CB.4010304@calno.com">news:[🔎] 481C33CB.4010304@calno.com... [...] > >Gonéri Le Bouder pointed that commercial Inc. logos are showed at the > >very begining of those games. [1] > > > >He thinks that those games should to be put in non-free, unless we can > >remove those logos. [2] > > > If you are unable to remove the logos due to lack of ability, then I really > am not persuaded by the argument that the software is free. Even if the > argument that the .dsk file is the prefered form of modification, Without > the ability to actually modify it, it really fails Freedoms #1 and #3 of the > Free Software Definition, and thus could not be considered free. I agree, and I actually raised such doubts about beneath-a-steel-sky: http://bugs.debian.org/322620#67 > > The licence of the games most certainly is not intended to extend to > modification of the logos. Removal of the logos may be fine (if possible > replace them with textual notices, so as not to be removing proper credit to > the creator and original publisher), but keeping them is almost certainly > not. Again I agree. > > Considering the previous 2 arguments, I belive the games belong in non-free > unless those logos are removed. I would certainly recommend removing the logos. Losing those great games just for a few non-free logos shown at the beginning would be a real waste. -- http://frx.netsons.org/doc/index.html#nanodocs The nano-document series is here! ..................................................... Francesco Poli . GnuPG key fpr == C979 F34B 27CE 5CD8 DC12 31B5 78F4 279B DD6D FCF4
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