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

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  • Denis 'GNUtoo' Carikli
  • Liliana Marie Prikler
  • Nicolas Goaziou
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Denis 'GNUtoo' Carikli wrote on 12 Apr 2023 01:52
(address . bug-guix@gnu.org)
20230412015205.22026747@primary_laptop
Hi,

The license of all these packages have that inside:
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> 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:
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> 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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Denis 'GNUtoo' Carikli wrote on 12 Apr 2023 02:55
Re: drascula, lure, lure-de, lure-es, lure-fr, lure-it, sky: non-commercial license
(address . 62784@debbugs.gnu.org)
20230412025510.47f0907d@primary_laptop
Hi,

I also forgot the following games (same license clause):
queen, queen-de, queen-fr, queen-it.

Denis.
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Nicolas Goaziou wrote on 12 Apr 2023 09:32
Re: bug#62784: drascula, lure, lure-de, lure-es, lure-fr, lure-it, sky: non-commercial license
(name . Denis 'GNUtoo' Carikli)(address . GNUtoo@cyberdimension.org)(address . 62784@debbugs.gnu.org)
87zg7dmu8b.fsf@nicolasgoaziou.fr
Hello,

Denis 'GNUtoo' Carikli <GNUtoo@cyberdimension.org> writes:
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> 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.

This report seems to appears from time to time in free GNU/Linux
distributions throughout the years.

In the license you mention, you omitted the second point : "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". In other words, I think the non-commercial restriction is
moot in our situation. Consequently, it seems okay to keep these games
in Guix. Debian, Trisquel, PureOS distributions seem to agree, FWIW.

I understand our opinions may differ here, but I do think software
freedom is not at stake when including drascula and friends in Guix.

Regards,
--
Nicolas Goaziou
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Liliana Marie Prikler wrote on 12 Apr 2023 11:35
Re: drascula, lure, lure-de, lure-es, lure-fr, lure-it, sky: non-commercial license
(name . Tobias Geerinckx-Rice)(address . me@tobias.gr)
9972c0d44d35fce44c6cb3f6bef9cbda8ce5344e.camel@gmail.com
Hi Denis,

Am Mittwoch, dem 12.04.2023 um 01:52 +0200 schrieb Denis 'GNUtoo'
Carikli:
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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. Th
> > 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.
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.

Cheers

PS: Tobias, do you have a reply from the licensing team?

[1] <48ce733acba20030aba9eba1a45e18a805cfcf73.camel@gmail.com>
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Liliana Marie Prikler wrote on 8 Sep 2023 21:28
(name . Tobias Geerinckx-Rice)(address . me@tobias.gr)
962371111be742701b83b3850aabd3b7d9ddfc00.camel@gmail.com
Am Mittwoch, dem 12.04.2023 um 11:35 +0200 schrieb Liliana Marie
Prikler:
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> 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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