Bug#321669: enigma: Copyright violation for menu.s3m

2005-08-29 Thread Francesco Poli
On Mon, 29 Aug 2005 14:15:06 +0200 Sven Luther wrote: > We spoke about documentation, firmware, and other such stuff which you > have a reasonable reason to modify, but music for a game ? You are > free to take the music and replace it with another, i suppose. You are always free to take a progra

Bug#321669: enigma: Copyright violation for menu.s3m

2005-08-29 Thread Andrew Suffield
On Sun, Aug 28, 2005 at 05:35:36PM -0700, Don Armstrong wrote: > On Sun, 28 Aug 2005, Francesco Poli wrote: > > On Sun, 28 Aug 2005 20:34:02 +0200 Sven Luther wrote: > > > Erich, applying the GPL to a documentation is ok, but don't you > > > think you are pushing things a bit hard by applying it to

Bug#321669: enigma: Copyright violation for menu.s3m

2005-08-29 Thread Sven Luther
On Mon, Aug 29, 2005 at 01:38:29PM +0200, Erich Schubert wrote: > Hi, > > Well, i was just surprised that you listed the second alternative as asking > > the author to GPL it, instead of asking for a fre elicence, but i believe > > that > > in this case, any licence that allows distribution of the

Bug#321669: enigma: Copyright violation for menu.s3m

2005-08-29 Thread Erich Schubert
Hi, > We spoke about documentation, firmware, and other such stuff which you have a > reasonable reason to modify, but music for a game ? You are free to take the > music and replace it with another, i suppose. This is an s3m, screamtracker file. You can modify it quite easily with so called track

Bug#321669: enigma: Copyright violation for menu.s3m

2005-08-29 Thread Erich Schubert
Hi, > Well, i was just surprised that you listed the second alternative as asking > the author to GPL it, instead of asking for a fre elicence, but i believe that > in this case, any licence that allows distribution of the music track should > be ok, not sure though. Not by the post-sarge require

Bug#321669: enigma: Copyright violation for menu.s3m

2005-08-29 Thread Sven Luther
On Sun, Aug 28, 2005 at 09:09:33PM +0200, Erich Schubert wrote: > Hi, > > Erich, applying the GPL to a documentation is ok, but don't you think you > > are > > pushing things a bit hard by applying it to a music file too ? > > It doesn't need to be GPL, but it needs to be DFSG-free. Well, i was

Bug#321669: enigma: Copyright violation for menu.s3m

2005-08-28 Thread Steve Langasek
On Sun, Aug 28, 2005 at 02:48:27PM +0200, Erich Schubert wrote: > I basically see three solutions: > - make an enigma 0.92.1 upload, removing the s3m file > (eventually making a non-free enigma-music package, but I'm too lazy) > - ask the author of the song if he'd GPL-licence it > - move enigma

Bug#321669: enigma: Copyright violation for menu.s3m

2005-08-28 Thread Don Armstrong
On Sun, 28 Aug 2005, Francesco Poli wrote: > On Sun, 28 Aug 2005 20:34:02 +0200 Sven Luther wrote: > > Erich, applying the GPL to a documentation is ok, but don't you > > think you are pushing things a bit hard by applying it to a music > > file too ? > > I don't think so. Any work can be released

Bug#321669: enigma: Copyright violation for menu.s3m

2005-08-28 Thread Francesco Poli
On Sun, 28 Aug 2005 20:34:02 +0200 Sven Luther wrote: [...] > Erich, applying the GPL to a documentation is ok, but don't you think > you are pushing things a bit hard by applying it to a music file too ? I don't think so. Any work can be released under the GPL, IMHO. -- :-( This Universe

Bug#321669: enigma: Copyright violation for menu.s3m

2005-08-28 Thread Erich Schubert
Hi, > Erich, applying the GPL to a documentation is ok, but don't you think you are > pushing things a bit hard by applying it to a music file too ? It doesn't need to be GPL, but it needs to be DFSG-free. Anyway, I have my upload ready with the music file removed. Any objections that I just go

Bug#321669: enigma: Copyright violation for menu.s3m

2005-08-28 Thread Sven Luther
On Sun, Aug 28, 2005 at 02:48:27PM +0200, Erich Schubert wrote: > Hi, > I'm going to upload a new enigma package soon, since enigma in unstable > is uninstallable now (depending on the old libzipios package, g++ > transition to 4.0) > > I'd like to resolve this issue with the same upload - what do

Bug#321669: enigma: Copyright violation for menu.s3m

2005-08-28 Thread Erich Schubert
Hi, I'm going to upload a new enigma package soon, since enigma in unstable is uninstallable now (depending on the old libzipios package, g++ transition to 4.0) I'd like to resolve this issue with the same upload - what do you suggest? I'm cc'ing debian-legal, too. Short version of the situation

Bug#321669: enigma: Copyright violation for menu.s3m

2005-08-14 Thread Erich Schubert
Hi, > Yes, I agree. But given that he has not jumped in this discussion in > the last 7 days, and this is the third serious bug I am not holding my > breath right now. I havn't caught up with my mails yet. I was offline the last week, giving an intensive course, before that I was at a conference.

Bug#321669: enigma: Copyright violation for menu.s3m

2005-08-14 Thread Helge Kreutzmann
Hello Daniel, On Sun, Aug 07, 2005 at 12:46:12PM +0200, Daniel Heck wrote: > > On Sun, Aug 07, 2005 at 11:22:33AM +0200, Daniel Heck wrote: > > > We have a special permission from Andrew Sega (aka Necros) to distribute > > > menu.s3m with Engima. He is also listed in the manual > > > > > > http:/

Bug#321669: enigma: Copyright violation for menu.s3m

2005-08-07 Thread Daniel Heck
Helge, > On Sun, Aug 07, 2005 at 11:22:33AM +0200, Daniel Heck wrote: > > We have a special permission from Andrew Sega (aka Necros) to distribute > > menu.s3m with Engima. He is also listed in the manual > > > > http://www.nongnu.org/enigma/manual/enigma_5.html#SEC38 > > Ok, but the connection

Bug#321669: enigma: Copyright violation for menu.s3m

2005-08-07 Thread Helge Kreutzmann
Hello Daniel, On Sun, Aug 07, 2005 at 11:22:33AM +0200, Daniel Heck wrote: > We have a special permission from Andrew Sega (aka Necros) to distribute > menu.s3m with Engima. He is also listed in the manual > > http://www.nongnu.org/enigma/manual/enigma_5.html#SEC38 Ok, but the connection Necros

Bug#321669: enigma: Copyright violation for menu.s3m

2005-08-07 Thread Daniel Heck
> Now look at menu.s3m in /usr/share/games/enigma/sound. If you play it > (e.g, with mikmod), then you'll see the copyright: > 1 Pentagonal Dreams > 2 > 3 by Necros / FM / LD > 4 > 5 > 6 Music (C) 1995 Necros / FM > 7 > 8 All rights reserved. > 9 > 10 Contact: >

Bug#321669: enigma: Copyright violation for menu.s3m

2005-08-06 Thread Helge Kreutzmann
Package: enigma Version: 0.81.1-2 Severity: serious Justification: Policy 2.3 Policy says: Packages whose copyright permission notices (or patent problems) do not even allow redistribution of binaries only, and where no special permission has been obtained, must not be placed on the De