[Fedora-legal-list] Vague permissions on Mah Jong game

Göran Uddeborg goeran at uddeborg.se
Wed Feb 10 22:13:15 UTC 2010


"Tom \"spot\" Callaway":
> If the coloured tiles appear to be identical to the black and white
> tiles, except, well, coloured in, then they're a derived work of the
> original black and white tiles and have the same license problem as the
> original tiles.

I don't know what the originals looked like.  But its probably the case.

> I suspect that there are freely licensed tile pixmaps in one of the
> other Mah Jong games out there that could be repurposed.

Good point!  I'll try that.

I'll bet this will be the first time a package has a BuildRequires on
gnome-games or kdegames! :-)



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