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[Hans de Goede]

Jon Ciesla wrote:
> Reviews of agistudio and nagi are submitted.  Thanks to all for the
> assistance and input.
> 
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=239811
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=239812
> 

Good,

Any progress on any freely redistributable games? I'm not 100% comfortable with 
this as nagi could be concidered an emulator (its not but its close), and then 
it would need to follow the emulator guidelines.

The big problem here is that games like Larry and Space quest are big 
commercial hits, and that although they had almost 0 copy protection, Sierra 
could still try to claim that AGI interpreters circumvention some level of copy 
protection / in some way are contributory copyright infringement. I know this 
is a long shot, but it still worries me. I know very well that this could still 
happen if we have freely distributable games, but then atleast we have 
signicant non infring use.

I see 2 solutions here:
1) Ask Tom "spot" Callaway <tcallawa at redhat.com>, if he says its ok its ok,
    explain that nagi is needed for agi studio, and thus has some use outside of
    any free content
2) Contact freeware AGI Games Authors and get a free distribution permission
    from them

I would think 1) is the best, because even if we have 2) I would still like to 
see Tom's approval for this.

Regards,

Hans