ITP some 13 years old code with unknown license

-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

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

-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

-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. | | |

moving Blockade from non-free to main perhaps?

Hi folks, If somebody has some spare minutes, would you mind to take a look at the copyright of blockade ? http://packages.debian.org/changelogs/pool/non-free/b/blockade/current/copyright Blockade is a reimplementation of an old Mac game. The code is public domain, except for the game scenes, wh

is it allowed to deny access to obsolete GPL2 source packages?

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi folks, Theoretical question: If a package in Sid is obsoleted for whatever reason, can the right to obtain the sources be taken away? Assuming the obsolete package is licensed using GPL2: : 3. You may copy and distribute the Program (or a work

Re: is it allowed to deny access to obsolete GPL2 source packages?

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 10/31/11 09:02, Rémi Vanicat wrote: > > The important part for duration here is "Accompany it". So when we stop to > distribute the software, we can stop to distribute the source. Sorry to say, but that doesn't help. Dropping the sources immediat