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Licensing issues
04-29-2007, 01:19 AM,
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Hi Jon, I posted some comments on the Fedora Bugzilla and am aware of the license issue with Debian.
http://wiki.debian.org/Games/Vdrift/license-issues

Part of the problem is that some of our unlicensed art was assigned a Creative Commons license before the last release, which we did not realized was not a license 100% accepted as "free" by some organizations like Debian. This license was put on cars we created as well as some that were created by others but not licensed at all.

Another problem is that all our tracks and many of our cars were imported from other sources such as racer-xtreme.com, a Racer community site. Many of those tracks were modified versions of tracks from still other games. Some of those data were originally created for other games, but that is not to say that they all originally commercial works. Some of them may be, others were probably community created tracks which have simply been retrofitted for different games after a certain game is no longer in use. I have yet to see any specific licenses assigned to any of the tracks.

It is very hard to track the lineage of these data. Most of them have been up for quite a long time on racer-xtreme with none of the modelers or other involved parties raising any significant complaints. However due to the uncertain nature of the origin of these data, it is probably best that we just wait until the next release, where, as Joe mentioned, the package will contain only original cars.

edit: or, reading the Fedora bugzilla page comments, you could create a data package with only the OK cars/tracks. I am 100% sure that the following cars are OK: XS, TL, TL2, GT. Also I know that the tracks Weekend Drive and Ruudskogen were created specifically for Racer, and I doubt this small community game would take legal action against us, especially since they published the tracks with unlocked models.

If you are interested in researching the origins of the tracks, most of them came from racer-xtreme so that's the best place to start. From there, visit the author's web site and try to find a license or contact them. Don't put your hopes up too high on a lot of responses...you're lucky if the author still has a web page at all...
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Licensing issues - by limburgher - 04-27-2007, 09:46 AM
[No subject] - by protomor - 04-27-2007, 10:23 AM
[No subject] - by joevenzon_phpbb2_import3 - 04-27-2007, 10:59 PM
[No subject] - by thelusiv - 04-29-2007, 01:19 AM
Oy. - by limburgher - 04-30-2007, 09:41 AM
[No subject] - by protomor - 04-30-2007, 09:43 AM
[No subject] - by limburgher - 04-30-2007, 10:02 AM
Re: Oy. - by reece146 - 04-30-2007, 10:25 AM
[No subject] - by limburgher - 04-30-2007, 10:27 AM
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