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bug #32287: beneath-a-steel-sky game is non-free

Submitted by:  Adam Saunders <asaun>
Submitted on:  Sat 29 Jan 2011 02:50:34 AM UTC  
 
Category: NoneSeverity: 3 - Normal
Item Group: NoneStatus: Wont Fix
Privacy: PublicAssigned to: Karl Goetz <kgoetz>
Open/Closed: Closed

Sat 19 Mar 2011 10:01:41 AM UTC, comment #1:

per quidems reply to this question in trisquel, I'm going to close this wontfix:

http://trisquel.info/en/forum/beneath-steel-sky-license

" It is a badly written free software license because you can attach whatever you like to the program -an emacs copy, a picasso- and sell both."

Karl Goetz <kgoetz>In charge of this item.
Sat 29 Jan 2011 02:50:34 AM UTC, original submission:

http://packages.debian.org/changelogs/pool/main/b/beneath-a-steel-sky/beneath-a-steel-sky_0.0372-4/beneath-a-steel-sky.copyright

I quote:
"Licence: [...] 3) You may not charge a fee for the game itself. This includes reselling the game as an individual item."

This is against the FSF's guidelines for a free distro: http://www.gnu.org/distros/free-system-distribution-guidelines.html

I quote:
"Data that has an aesthetic purpose, rather than a functional one, may 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."

[Note: This is not a repost of the previous bug. The two packages share the same problem.]

Adam Saunders <asaun>

 

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