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