Re: ITP some 13 years old code with unknown license

2004-10-27 Thread Josh Triplett
[No need to CC me; I'm subscribed.] Harald Dunkel wrote: > Next question: Blockade contains a lot of game levels generated > by a lot of people. I have to assume that the included list > of contributors is complete. That's generally a reasonable assumption, unless there is evidence to the contrar

Re: ITP some 13 years old code with unknown license

2004-10-27 Thread Harald Dunkel
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Josh Triplett wrote: | Harald Dunkel wrote: | |>This did work. Mouse told me that Blockade is "public domain", |>which I would translate to BSD license. AFAIK this license |>allows me to do whatever I like with the sources. | | | "Public domain" has a

Re: ITP some 13 years old code with unknown license

2004-10-27 Thread Josh Triplett
Harald Dunkel wrote: > This did work. Mouse told me that Blockade is "public domain", > which I would translate to BSD license. AFAIK this license > allows me to do whatever I like with the sources. "Public domain" has a specific legal meaning, and it isn't "under the BSD license". "Public domain

Re: Re: ITP some 13 years old code with unknown license

2004-10-27 Thread Harald Dunkel
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 This did work. Mouse told me that Blockade is "public domain", which I would translate to BSD license. AFAIK this license allows me to do whatever I like with the sources. Question: Am I allowed to copy-n-paste some BSD license header into his source

Re: ITP some 13 years old code with unknown license

2004-10-24 Thread Marco d'Itri
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >Atari game, and he said its OK. Of course I tried to contact >der Mouse, but without luck. And since "Mouse" is widely used >in computing, Google didn't return something usefull. You need to know what to look for... der Mouse is well known in some circles. :-) mailto:[EMA

Re: ITP some 13 years old code with unknown license

2004-10-23 Thread Ben Pfaff
"Harald Dunkel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > My problem is: There is no explicite license, except for > some included fonts. The author ("der Mouse") just mumbles > something about having contacted the author of the original > Atari game, and he said its OK. Of course I tried to contact > der Mou

ITP some 13 years old code with unknown license

2004-10-23 Thread Harald Dunkel
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi folks, I would like ITP Blockade. Its an old XWindow game. Currently the sources can be grabbed here: http://www.geocities.com/TimesSquare/Zone/5267/ A first package has been uploaded to mentors.debian.net (I'm in the NM process.) My pr