Date: Thu, 26 Aug 2010 01:46:58 +0400 From: Dmitry Marakasov <amdmi3@amdmi3.ru> To: David Demelier <demelier.david@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Legal music and sound issues with games/viruskiller Message-ID: <20100825214658.GA80380@hades.panopticon> In-Reply-To: <4C755CBD.9070801@gmail.com> References: <4C755CBD.9070801@gmail.com>
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* David Demelier (demelier.david@gmail.com) wrote: > We rewrote the games/viruskiller with one option, MUSIC. The musics and > sounds have legal issues and that is specified here : > > http://www.happypenguin.org/forums/viewtopic.php?t=4725 > > Because I wanted to write this port, I made this option to interact with > the user. He needs to enable the option to use the sounds and musics. > > I also said in the comment options that the files are non-free, then the > user is completely warned. > I think with this, we could keep the game in the ports/ tree. These games were removed for reason. As I remember it was stated that (in USA law?) plain linking to copyright-infriging material (which we anyway do, even if not installing these files) is a problem. I think the (only) correct way to safely leave it in the ports is to reroll the distfile without unsafe material. That should also save you from the need to add confusing options/warnings to the port. -- Dmitry Marakasov . 55B5 0596 FF1E 8D84 5F56 9510 D35A 80DD F9D2 F77D amdmi3@amdmi3.ru ..: jabber: amdmi3@jabber.ru http://www.amdmi3.ru
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