To: "Tom \"spot\" Callaway" <tcallawa@redhat.com>
From: Ian Boddy <boddy@selse.demon.co.uk>
Subject: Re: Sound sample used in "RocksandDiamonds" game in Fedora Linux

Tom,

Hi, thanks for getting in touch. No I was not aware that Alchemy was 
being used in RocksandDiamonds. However if it is an open source 
project then that is fine - as long as it is correctly credited with 
a link to www.ianboddy.com in the appropriate place.

Cheers,

Ian Boddy

At 15:38 -0500 9/7/07, Tom \"spot\" Callaway wrote:
>Ian,
>
>Recently, it was brought to my attention that one of the games included
>in Fedora Linux (a free software distribution of Linux, a popular
>computer operating system) was using sound samples with attribution, but
>without permission.
>
>One of those samples is "Alchemy" from your album, "Drive".
>
>It is being used in a game called "RocksandDiamonds", produced by
>ArtSoft (http://www.artsoft.org/rocksndiamonds/)
>
>Did you give permission to ArtSoft to use this sample? If not, would you
>be willing to let them (and by proxy, Fedora) use this sample in their
>game?
>
>Fedora has a policy of not distributing content which has restrictions
>placed on its usage, such as royalties or commercial use restrictions.
>
>If you are uncomfortable with Fedora distributing your sound sample (or
>if you simply do not respond), we will remove your sound sample from
>rocksanddiamonds, and replace it with an unencumbered sound sample.
>
>Thanks in advance,
>
>Tom Callaway
>Fedora Project (http://fedoraproject.org)


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