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Bug#700903: ITP: headoverheels -- remake of the classical game from the '80s



On Mon, 2013-02-18 at 22:09 -0300, Fernando J.Rodríguez wrote:
[...]
>   Description     : remake of the classical game from the '80s
> 
> Head over Heels is a arcade-adventure game in isometric perspective,
> originally released in 1987 for several 8-bit home computers.
[...]
> That being said, I have some concers about the legal status of the
> game's artwork.
> While the graphics have been drawn by the upstrem author himself, and
> licensed with the code as free software, they resemble very faithfully
> the original's, only with much higher resolution and colors.
> If they can be considered derived works of the original game, then they
> are very likely undistributable. 
[...]

Use of the original name may also be considered trademark infringement.

Ben.

-- 
Ben Hutchings
Sturgeon's Law: Ninety percent of everything is crap.

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