Reply from Per Øyvind Karlsen

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From: Per Øyvind Karlsen <[e-mail]>
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To: Ulrich Mueller <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: Distribution terms for digger
Date: Mon, 12 May 2014 00:33:47 +0200

Well, as the text document says, the original author of the code had the right
to use the code in other products (ie. anything not named "Digger"), and
granted the same rights to Andrew, which released it as "Digger Remastered"
under the GNU GPL.

Distribution of the original game named "Digger", however, is what's not
strictly legal.

I hope this clears up the issue. :)

(sorry for the late reply btw.)

2014-04-09 12:56 GMT+02:00 Ulrich Mueller <[e-mail]>:

    [Mail to [e-mail] bounced, trying again with gmail address.]
   
    Hello,
    I am a developer for the Gentoo Linux distribution and member of their
    licenses team. Currently we are doing an audit of packages' licenses
    and came across the digger package.
   
    We found that the legal text in digger.txt was updated some time ago,
    in this commit:
    https://gitorious.org/digger/digger/commit/6ef44e1ba4d1da7271c4d2a7d65e71d22b685863
   
    | Q: Is this legal?
    |
    | A: Yes! Recently the original author of Digger, Rob Sleath, contacted
    me.
    | He no longer owns the copyright to Digger (or the other games) but he
    did
    | retain the right to use the code for development of other products.
    | He considers Digger Remastered to be another product, and has granted me
    | copyright to Digger Remastered, which I have chosen to license under the
    | GNU GPL.
   
    The questions that arose in the discussion within Gentoo are which
    version exactly is considered another product? And who has been
    granted the copyright? Is that you, or Andrew Jenner who is mentioned
    at the top of digger.txt?
   
    Also above-mentioned commit adds this paragraph:
   
    | My distributing of the original games is, strictly speaking, not legal.
    | According to intellectual property law, a work copyrighted by a company
    | continues to be copyrighted for 75 years.
   
    Could you clarify if this affects any files included in the version
    hosted at Gitorious?
   
    There's also an open bug about the issue in our bug tracker:
    https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=113798
    (Would it be o.k. if I post your reply there?)
   
    Thanks in advance and kind regards,
    Ulrich Müller