From: 	steveallen@freesurf.fr
To: 	tcallawa@redhat.com
Subject: 	Re: Sound sample used in 'RocksandDiamonds' game in Fedora Linux
Date: 	Fri, 3 Aug 2007 08:54:14 +0200 (CEST) (02:54 EDT)

Sorry I was on holidays,
If you want to use "Czardasz" freely, only in "RocksandDiamonds", I want
you to make some "advertissement" to be included in the software about me,
who I am and my web sites.
My name is Robert PIECULEWICZ (www.pieclewicz.com)
My stage name is Steve Allen (www.steveallen.freesurf.fr)
My publishing Company is CRYSTAL PLANET (www.musicrystal.fr)
All my music is protected through SACEM (France).
For anymore informations contact Michel LOISEAU my french Manager
(www.mloiseau@freesurf.fr)
Regards. Steve



> Steve,
>
> My french is very poor, so apologies in advance if you are not the
> right individual.
>
> 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  by Robert Pieculewicz. Is this your
> song?
>
> 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)



