GNU bug report logs - #62784
drascula, lure, lure-de, lure-es, lure-fr, lure-it, sky: non-commercial license

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From: help-debbugs <at> gnu.org (GNU bug Tracking System)
To: Denis 'GNUtoo' Carikli <GNUtoo <at> cyberdimension.org>
Subject: bug#62784: closed (Re: drascula, lure, lure-de, lure-es, lure-fr,
 lure-it, sky: non-commercial license)
Date: Fri, 08 Sep 2023 19:30:02 +0000

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Your bug report

#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.

The explanation is attached below, along with your original report.
If you require more details, please reply to 62784 <at> debbugs.gnu.org.

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From: Liliana Marie Prikler <liliana.prikler <at> gmail.com>
To: Denis 'GNUtoo' Carikli <GNUtoo <at> cyberdimension.org>, 
 62784-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Cc: Tobias Geerinckx-Rice <me <at> tobias.gr>
Subject: Re: drascula, lure, lure-de, lure-es, lure-fr, lure-it, sky:
 non-commercial license
Date: Fri, 08 Sep 2023 21:28:54 +0200

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

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From: Denis 'GNUtoo' Carikli <GNUtoo <at> cyberdimension.org>
To: bug-guix <at> gnu.org
Subject: drascula, lure, lure-de, lure-es, lure-fr, lure-it, sky:
 non-commercial license
Date: Wed, 12 Apr 2023 01:52:31 +0200

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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.

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