Looking for reviews swaps

[Ralf Corsepius]

Michael Schwendt wrote:
> On Mon, 06 Apr 2009 05:53:25 +0200, Ralf wrote:
> 
>> Michael Schwendt wrote:
>>> On Sun, 05 Apr 2009 20:29:03 +0200, Ralf wrote:
>>>
>>>> Michael Schwendt wrote:
>>>>> On Sun, 05 Apr 2009 18:56:09 +0200, Ralf wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> Hans de Goede wrote:
>>>>>>> Hi All,
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> I've just packaged this cool recently set free old style
>>>>>>> adventure game drascula, including music and subtitles
>>>>>>> in French, German, Spanish and Italian.
>>>>>> Well I am reading this in drascula-music's readme.txt:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>  > 3) You may not charge a fee for the game itself. This includes
>>>>>>  > reselling the
>>>>>>  > game as an individual item.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Sounds like a "non-free" package to me.
>>>>>  2) You may charge a reasonable copying fee for this archive, and may
>>>>> distribute it in aggregate as part of a larger and possibly commercial software
>>>>> distribution (such as a Linux distribution or magazine coverdisk).
>>>> == you may distribute it as part of Fedora.
>>> No, as part of "a larger and possibly commercial software distribution".
>> IMO, this "license" is self contradicting => Likely illegal and likely void.
> 
> Well, I could agree with that, also because it is much too vague, and
> lawyers might laugh about the licence terms. The [albeit not legally
> binding] preamble of the licence explains the intent. They want to
> restrict commercial exploitation of the game data files by declaring some
> forms of sale of the game as illegal. According to the preamble, selling a
> commercial collection of games including this one would be illegal. One
> could not put together such a collection based on ScummVM (as the game
> data are useless without an engine like SCUMM). Nevertheless, it's lawyers
> and the FSF (as consulted) to decide whether this thing is considered
> "free enough", for Fedora or in general.

OK, provided what you say, I am sure Red Hat or you will pay the lawyers 
of those people who plan to
- take these *.oggs and release them through a music d/l site.
- take these *.oggs and re-mix them for use in other SW-applications.
- take these *.oggs and re-use them in completely different application 
domains.

>>>> The clause I cited, restricts commercial use of the SW itself. One of 
>>>> the basic freedoms of open source software.
>>> It's content, not code.
>> Any content is also "source"-code at the same time.  It's a matter of 
>> use-case. It's essentially the same thing as fonts, images etc. In this 
>> case it's "audio artworks."
> 
> Note that game data uses the same licence text.

Same problem: You may not re-use these sources as input for other 
games/game engines (unless the original SCUMM packages are also 
installed) => non-free.