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On Wed, 2005-09-14 at 19:08 +0200, Sven Vermeulen wrote: |
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> Many sites consider the g-logo a community logo and feel that they are free |
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> to use it any way they like, including offering t-shirts and such that |
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> "look" official but have no link whatsoever with the Gentoo Foundation. |
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What they consider and what is actual fact aren't exactly the same |
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thing. I've noticed a few sites myself. There are also still *many* |
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sites selling the Gentoo Games GameCD images. While I don't know what |
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our legal standing is on these, the Enemy Territory GameCD was made |
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illegally by Daniel et al without the permission of Id Software. |
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Basically, people continuing to put out and offer this CD is a black eye |
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on Gentoo, since Gentoo Games (the defunct company) is still associated |
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heavily with Gentoo Linux and the Gentoo Foundation. Yeah, it sucks, |
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but it is the truth. |
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Going back, I have noticed that two of the sites that I contacted, |
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linuxit.com.au and xplinux.biz have removed the offending CD images from |
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their site. |
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http://www.iso4linux.com/product_info.php/cPath/23/products_id/40 |
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This site is still selling the CD illegally. I am sending them an email |
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now. My email is as follows: |
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"Hello, |
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I just wanted to inform you that the CD image offered on your site at |
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http://www.iso4linux.com/product_info.php/cPath/23/products_id/40 was |
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produced without the express permission of Id Software and is illegal to |
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redistribute. The CD was originally created for Gentoo Games, Inc. |
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Please remove this CD image from your site. |
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Thank you, |
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Chris Gianelloni |
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Gentoo Games Team" |
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As you can see, I make no threats of any kind, but simply inform the |
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site owners of the legal status of the CD. |
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Should I continue doing this? One of the main reasons is I wish to |
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revive "Gentoo Games" not as a commercial entity of any kind, but rather |
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as a community site geared towards open source gaming. The idea would |
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be to offer new GameCD images of open source games on the site. Because |
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of this, I'd like to try my best to clean up the mess left from the |
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previous "Gentoo Games" before doing any other work on this. |
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Here are some other sites that I have found, but have not contacted |
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(non-English sites). |
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http://www.nixp.ru/cdrom/req/94 |
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http://www.linuxisos.de/catalog/product_info.php/products_id/44 |
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http://www.edmunds-enterprises.com/linux/cart.php/ba/pdtl/product/221 |
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(no contact info that I can see) |
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http://www.linux-hut.com/product_info.php?cPath=11&products_id=83 |
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(no contact info that I can see) |
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I'm sure there are more, but this was just a quick search. |
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Chris Gianelloni |
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Release Engineering - Strategic Lead/QA Manager |
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Games - Developer |
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Gentoo Linux |
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