On Mon, 2018-04-02 at 12:09 +0000, Artur Iwicki wrote: > There is a game package "paintown" [1]; pushed to stable F28, > currently in updates-testing for F27 [2]. I installed the game from > updates-testing and noticed that the game seems to use copyrighted > assets - it features characters from franchises such as Street > Fighter, Marvel comics, and Dragon Ball. While I'm not 100% certain > if the assets themselves are copyrighted - it's possible they are not > ripped from other games, but rather fan-made spritesheets - I'm > pretty sure that the use of the characters themselves constitutes as > infringement. As such, I think the package should be pulled before it > causes us any legal troubles. > > [1] http://paintown.org/ > [2] https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2018-930a6c068e The characters do not look exactly the same to me but Paintown have a legal list of things [1] [1] https://github.com/kazzmir/paintown/blob/master/LEGAL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/kazzmir/paintown/master/LEGAL -- Sérgio M. B. _______________________________________________ legal mailing list -- legal@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to legal-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
