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
On 04/02/2018 08:09 AM, 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.
Agreed. I'm on it.
~tom
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
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