[Pkg-allegro-maintainers] Bug#564966: kq-data: contains unlicensed music

[Kalle Olavi Niemitalo]

Package: kq-data
Version: 0.99.cvs20070319-1.1
Severity: serious

According to these posts to the kqlives-main mailing list in 2002-2004

http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/message.php?msg_name=000901c2d8ac%2483171de0%248692fea9%40computer
  (Re: [Kqlives-main] TT <--> TroyD merge)
http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/message.php?msg_id=000b01c3ada0%2431e09400%24144ca8c0%40ControlCenter
  (Re: [Kqlives-main] Musak?)
http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/message.php?msg_id=20040721164728.TIOB4492.mx-mtaout01.mts.net%40mx-mtaout
  (Re: Re: [Kqlives-main] RE: Kqlives-main digest, Vol 1 #290 - 8 msgs)

the following music files included in KQ are unlicensed:

  aa_arofl.xm
  comeback.mod
  dag_4.xm
  enfero.xm
  eransp.mod
  infanita.mod
  into61.s3m
  land.mod
  oxford.s3m
  rain.s3m
  toroia.s3m
  town.mod
  waterw.xm

In upstream CVS, the music/ directory has not been modified after
the initial import in September 2002.  Thus, the files cannot
have been replaced with free ones after the mails.

Even if the demoscene musicians who made these files are happy to
let people copy them, it still does not mean modifying them is
allowed, as Debian would require for packages in main.
There was a similar bug in the meritous package:
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=465532

ExtraTracks.zip in the SourceForge download area for KQ contains
music tracks whose authors permit them to be used in KQ:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/kqlives/files/ExtraTracks/
http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/message.php?msg_id=001201c365ac%24c1afa580%240300000a%40win.mshome.net
http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/message.php?msg_id=20040723180707.EEVZ4492.mx-mtaout01.mts.net%40mx-mtaout
http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/message.php?msg_id=4102235E.605%40ntlworld.com
http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/message.php?msg_id=001d01c471b9%245700dfa0%246205010a%40ControlCenter
so the unlicensed tracks could possibly be replaced with these,
if the licence grants are clear and permissive enough...?

-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (900, 'unstable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-trunk-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=fi_FI.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=fi_FI.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

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