Here is a copy of the email that I sent today to the upstream copyright holder: Sam, Fedora has an ongoing process to audit the licenses of the code and content in our packages. Recently, it was brought to my attention that the license on the Maelstrom art and sounds was as follows: "The artwork and sounds used by Maelstrom are copyright Ambrosia Software (http://www.ambrosiasw.com) and may not be redistributed separately from the Maelstrom GPL source code." This license is problematic for Fedora for a number of reasons. 1) The license does not explicitly grant any permission to redistribute this content (it merely states a condition under which redistribution is not permitted). Since redistribution is not a permission automatically granted by US Copyright Law, it does not seem that Fedora has permission to redistribute Maelstrom's art/sounds content. 2) Fedora requires that all content be "freely redistributable without restriction". This includes restrictions on commercial use and bundling requirements. In the current format, the license seems to make it clear that bundling the content with the GPL source code is intended as a redistribution restriction (even with the legal ambiguity mentioned in in #1). Is there any chance that Ambrosia Software (which I believe is you), would consider relicensing the content under licensing terms which permit redistribution without the bundling restriction (or any other restriction)? Since Maelstrom was originally released, many good content licenses have been written, such as the Creative Commons licenses. Fedora keeps a list of acceptable licenses here: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Licensing#Good_Licenses_3 Many Fedora users continue to enjoy Maelstrom, and I would be disappointed to have to remove it from our distribution because of the content licensing, but that is the only outcome available to us if you choose not to relicense the Maelstrom content. Please feel free to contact me with any additional questions or concerns that you may have. Thanks, Tom Callaway, Fedora Legal
This bug appears to have been reported against 'rawhide' during the Fedora 12 development cycle. Changing version to '12'. More information and reason for this action is here: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/BugZappers/HouseKeeping
Upstream confirms that they are unable to relicense the content, due to not being able to track down all of the various contributors with copyright involved. Please remove/replace the art and music in this package.
At the moment, I do not have the time to do this. I have retired the package, and informed the Games SIG so that they can pick up the task of replacing the art/music if they would like to.