Parallel Realities Games have non-free content

[Hans de Goede]

Tom spot Callaway wrote:
> Recently, it has come to light that all Parallel Realities games were knowingly 
> using and including non-free content (graphics, audio, etc).
> 
> See: http://www.happypenguin.org/forums/viewtopic.php?t=4725&highlight=
> 
> Accordingly, we need to block these packages from Fedora:
> 
> blobwars
> blobAndConquer
> starfighter
> viruskiller
> 

Ok I've been in contact with upstream about this and I got the following 
list from them of resources which they got from various places and they 
thus cannot give any license guarantees about:

For Blob Wars,

All Music
All Sound Effects

For Blob And Conquer

All Music
All Sound Effects

For Virus Killer

All Music
All Sound Effects

For Project: Starfighter
All Music
All Sound Effects
Character Portraits
Starfighter (and other spacecraft) images


My plan is to issue updates for blobwars and blobAndConquer removing 
music and sounds (and patching source as necessary to not crash when 
these are missing).

Then I'll be replacing the music which is all mod / xm / s3m with 
modtracker files from modarchive.org which only contains freely 
(re)distributable modtracker files (license already approved by Spot).

Last I will be replacing the sound effects with sound effects from other 
free games in Fedora, mainly freedoom, nexuiz, tremulous, opearena and 
worminator.

I'll do the same for viruskiller as that one is from Matthias, and 
Matthias seems to have little time for Fedora lately.

Project starfighter will have to be removed until we can fix the 
graphics issue, I've contacted Nicu and Marin asking them if they can 
maybe do some replacement graphics for starfighter.

Regards,

Hans

p.s.

As I still have quite a bit webcam work todo before the F10 beta for now 
I'll only be removing the sounds / music, adding replacements is 
something which I will do in a later update. In the mean time any help 
with this would be much appreciated, if you want to help please drop me 
a mail to coordinate.