On Sat, Feb 23, 2008 at 10:40:51PM +0100, Cyril Brulebois wrote: > On 23/02/2008, Teemu Ikonen wrote: > > As for getting this game into Debian main, there seems to be still > > some issues with the licensing of some of the game content, mostly > > the textures it seems. There's also a question about the > > DFSG-freeness of the CC licenses used for the content, mentioned at > > http://ufoai.ninex.info/wiki/index.php/License_Issues Most content > > seems to be CC-SA 3.0 though, which is DFSG compatible. > > Note that ftpmasters are OK with that ATM, but that -legal hasn't > reached the same conclusion.
Damned, that's a problem - who decides ? Sounds like this would need a GR like for the FDL :) > > If there is a place outside of Debian which could host the packages > > and the revision control data for the debian dir, I could fix the > > trivial build bugs and lintian warnings in the package from getdeb. > > At least that way one could get Debian installable binaries. > > Why not just using the pkg-games svn to store the debian/ directory? It's just that there is a debian/ tree in upstream SVN, because I happen to have done this and other things in that project. And I don't know what's the policy is about this for packages for which the legal status for each part has not been settled - it's not just about CC, it's mostly about those textures that original devs copied from who-knows-where presuming it was OK to do so... Best regards, -- Yann -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
