Ksokoban levels legal status
Tadeusz Andrzej Kadłubowski <[email protected]> Sun, 23 Aug 2009 19:11:10 +0200
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Hello, Ksokoban (a part of kde games that was dropped for KDE4) features many levels from different sokoban implementations. There is a rather chaotic and brief attribution in the AUTHORS file ( http://websvn.kde.org/tags/unmaintained/4/ksokoban/AUTHORS? revision=713549&view=markup ). Now I'm writing a sokoban game for KDE4. I want to reuse ksokoban's levels. I don't feel quite comfortable with the legal situation of those levels. It is unclear which levels are written by which party and it is unclear whether those parties know that those works are incorporated in software product distributed under GPLv2+. Also, GPLv2+ requires each part of the source code to be marked with clear copyright claim and a summary of GPLv2+ terms. Level data lacks clear indication of who is the copyright owner. I have contacted Anders Widell, ksokoban's author. I don't know if he will respond and if he has any clarification. Meanwhile I want to hear what do you think about this situation? How to clear the licensing issues? BTW, the game i'm writing is in playground/games/magazynier/ - go check it out. It's playable late beta stage. Best regards, -- tadeusz andrzej kadłubowski _______________________________________________ Kde-licensing mailing list [email protected] https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-licensing