Bruno Wolff III wrote:
Colossus is a game written in java that didn't work using gcj, but does appear to work with icedtea. (Though I haven't done very extensive testing yet.) The program is GPL 2 licensed. The game is based on the classic Avalon Hill game Titan that is in the process of being reprinted by Valley Games. The name change should avoid the main potential trademark issue, but Valley Games might still threaten to sue even if they don't have a good case. Some of the artwork is clearly too similar to the original artwork to use. (In particular on legion markers, but at least some alternate colors are provided with artwork that wasn't in the original game.) (Valley Games is redoing the artwork, but the original creators would still hold copyright on it.) Also the board design has potential copyright issues as well. The masterboard is fairly unique and the interconnections of the various terrain types may be copyrightable even if the artwork isn't the same as the original board. Also each of the battle boards also has terrain where the actual locations of particular terrain types might be copyrightable even if the artwork is different. The data for the maps can be changed and does include some variants, so it might be possible to ship the game with only some varient data and let people grab the "standard" maps from sourceforge. I would be willing to try to package the game. (I've done the CLA but haven't packaged anything yet and don't have experience writing spec files from scratch, though I have mnade minor modifications to existing ones.)
Sounds interesting and sounds like you've done your homework, so I say go for it. Regards, Hans _______________________________________________ Fedora-games-list mailing list Fedora-games-list@xxxxxxxxxx http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-games-list
