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On Thursday 15 September 2005 15:21, Chris Gianelloni wrote: |
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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 |
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> > free to use it any way they like, including offering t-shirts and such |
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> > that "look" official but have no link whatsoever with the Gentoo |
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> > 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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Just be aware that in this case the violation is not of the trademark |
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(assuming the iso's are unchanged), but of the ID distribution policy. One |
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point though is that the logo's on the actual CD's must follow the |
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guidelines. |
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Paul |
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-- |
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Paul de Vrieze |
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Gentoo Developer |
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Mail: pauldv@g.o |
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Homepage: http://www.devrieze.net |