Subject: bug#62784: closed (Re: drascula, lure, lure-de, lure-es, lure-fr, lure-it, sky: non-commercial license)

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Date: Fri, 08 Sep 2023 19:30:02 +0000

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#62784: drascula, lure, lure-de, lure-es, lure-fr, lure-it, sky: non-commercial license

which was filed against the guix package, has been closed.

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Subject: Re: drascula, lure, lure-de, lure-es, lure-fr, lure-it, sky: non-commercial license
From: Liliana Marie Prikler <[email-masked]>
To: Denis 'GNUtoo' Carikli <[email-masked]>, [email-masked]
Cc: Tobias Geerinckx-Rice <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 08 Sep 2023 21:28:54 +0200
List-Id: <debbugs-submit.debbugs.gnu.org>

Am Mittwoch, dem 12.04.2023 um 11:35 +0200 schrieb Liliana Marie
Prikler:
> Hi Denis,
> 
> [...] We have been aware of this for about half a year now (see the
> thread in guix-devel following [1]), but as other FSDG-abiding
> distributions still include these games (or at least did back then)
> we postponed their removal.

We now ship none of these games as well as a fully bootstrapped
scummvm-based game.  This ought to make everyone happy.

Cheers

Subject: drascula, lure, lure-de, lure-es, lure-fr, lure-it, sky: non-commercial license
From: Denis 'GNUtoo' Carikli <[email-masked]>
To: [email-masked]
Date: Wed, 12 Apr 2023 01:52:31 +0200
List-Id: <debbugs-submit.debbugs.gnu.org>

Hi,

The license of all these packages have that inside:
> 3) You may not charge a fee for the game itself. This includes
> reselling the game as an individual item.

And the FSDG has that:
> Non-functional Data
> -------------------
> Data that isn't functional, that doesn't do a practical job, is more
> of an adornment to the system's software than a part of it. Thus, we
> don't insist on the free license criteria for non-functional data. It
> can be included in a free system distribution as long as its license
> gives you permission to copy and redistribute, both for commercial
> and non-commercial purposes. For example, some game engines released
> under the GNU GPL have accompanying game information—a fictional
> world map, game graphics, and so on—released under such a
> verbatim-distribution license. This kind of data can be part of a
> free system distribution, even though its license does not qualify as
> free, because it is non-functional.

So unfortunately here we need to remove these games.

Denis.