Control: tags -1 wontfix Hi Carlos,
currently short on time, but the below copyright issue needs immediate attention. On Sun, May 06, 2018 at 05:58:10PM -0300, Carlos Donizete Froes wrote: > > Hi Carlos, (snip) > > > Others / ITP related / Project related. > > - there is a Readme.txt on the game assests stating that this is free > > software but there is no license text attached. As "free" is ambiguous, > > Can you please elaborate the source where you've got the data from? > > I've only found some data file at the original authors website, but it > > is lacking this Readme.txt. (I can't find the rationale why you say it > > is Public Domain) > > I added this readme.txt where copied the license comments in the official > forum > of the game. Thanks. However, I after checking the post [1], - this seems to be a fan-forum, not the "official" one. - there is nothing noted in the post that the game assets are under a free license, nor that it is in Public Domain. - Contraire, the thread explains well that the copyright is "all rights reserved" by default, and the original author "Pixel himself is historically very closed-source/distribution-without-modification biased so it'd be an uphill battle either way." IANAL, but IMHO _this_ is a high legal risk for the Debian project. Please remove cavestory-nx from all Debian servers immediatly, at least until this is solved. (Also Set the salsa repository to private) [1]https://www.cavestory.org/forums/threads/cave-story-freeware-license.13817/ > If there is no need to document this, I will remove it from the 'data' > directory > and d/copyright. d/copyright needs to document everything copyright related! > > - as you've seem have to forked from nxegine-evo [1], can you go a bit > > into the reasons of your fork. As far as I can see the changes are > > minor, to the level of fixing spelling errors in comments and variable > > names. > > > > [1] https://github.com/nxengine/nxengine-evo > > Yes, I made a fork with this engine where I made minor changes. I've already > mentioned this mechanism in this package. Frankly, you should only fork for important reasons. Minor changes are not. Instead, work together with cavestory-nx and get your fixes merged. > Thanks! > > -- > ⢀⣴⠾⠻⢶⣦⠀ Carlos Donizete Froes (a.k.a coringao) <corin...@riseup.net> > ⣾⠁⢠⠒⠀⣿⡁ Fingerprint: 2157 630B D441 A775 BEFF D35F FA63 ADA6 B638 B780 > ⢿⡄⠘⠷⠚⠋⠀ Debian Wiki: https://wiki.debian.org/coringao > ⠈⠳⣄⠀⠀⠀
