On 02/09/2010 10:10 AM, Göran Uddeborg wrote: > I'm considering to package a Mah Jong game called mj > (http://mahjong.julianbradfield.org/). (It's the real game, not the > solitaire thing often called Mah Jong.) > > It's mostly GPLv2+, but there is one exception concerning the pixmaps > for the tiles. This is the relevant part of the tiles-v1/README file: > > Most of tile pixmaps in this directory derive from the pixmaps distributed > with the old xmahjongg solitaire game. > > The tiles were originally black and white, produced by Mark A. Holm, > subject to a "non-profit only" licence. > > The coloured versions were produced by Eddie Kohler, and in so far as > they are different works (a debatable point, I think), are distributed > under the Gnu General Public License Version 2 or later, which may be > found in the file GPL. > > I would assume that a "non-profit only license" is not ok for Fedora. > But I couldn't find it explicitly stated in the FAQ or elsewhere, so I > thought I'd check. > > And how would we treat the third paragraph. If it is "debatable" if > the tiles are GPL or "non-profit only"? Is the uncertainty enough to > exclude it, or how are such cases handled? If the coloured tiles appear to be identical to the black and white tiles, except, well, coloured in, then they're a derived work of the original black and white tiles and have the same license problem as the original tiles. Licenses which restrict resale are non-free, and not acceptable for Fedora. I suspect that there are freely licensed tile pixmaps in one of the other Mah Jong games out there that could be repurposed. If not, perhaps this is a project that Fedora Design could help out with. ~spot _______________________________________________ legal mailing list legal@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/legal
