clone 685660 -1 -2 reassign -1 ftp.debian.org reassign -2 release.debian.org retitle -1 RM: blockade -- non distributable retitle -2 RM: blockade -- non distributable thanks
Dear Ftpmasters and Release Team, please remove blockade from all suites, given its in doubt whether this program can be distributed by Debian. The package's copyright file leaves more questions than answers. In short: *) substantial portions of this package are of unknown ownership: The bitmaps found in blockade-pix.c are my work, but they were designed to mimic reasonably closely the overall look of the analogous bitmaps used in the Macintosh game. Exactly who owns the rights to those is unclear to me and probably depends on jurisdiction - but see the last paragraph of this file. Here, the upstream author grants permission to use and distribute his work, but it is unclear and in doubt whether he's allowed to do so if all. *) In parts, it uses genuine work originating from a Macintosh version of blockade, where uptream claims to have permission to use (but not to redistribute, or allow others [us] to redistribute) these parts: The Macintosh version claims to have been written by Christer Ericson, and provided a contact address (chris...@cs.umu.se). I wrote to that address, asking permission to write an X version; the reply granted permission, and gave permission to use the built-in scenes from the Mac version provided I credited the scene designers. Of course, the package may be introduced anytime later again if the copyright situation is not in question anymore. -- with kind regards, Arno Töll IRC: daemonkeeper on Freenode/OFTC GnuPG Key-ID: 0x9D80F36D
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