needs discussion on "a development mailing list (or a legal one, debian-legal seems a good place to go with this)" as David Futcher said.
** Description changed: Binary package hint: blobwars - Debian bug 495484 states that the music and sounds in Blobwars are non- - free. + The licensing FAQ[1] of upstream Blob Wars states the following: - "The music and sounds in Blobwars are taken from various "free" online - repositories, which allow distribution and non-commercial use at the - minimum, but not necessarily DFSG[1]-free. Some sounds and music files - may be in the public domain, but this is not clear yet. The sounds and - music should be split into a blobwars-data-nonfree package." + "All source code found on this site is available under the GNU General + Public License (often referred to as the GPL). You can obtain a copy of + the license by clicking here [link to GPLv2]." - [1] DFSG- Debian Free Software Guidelines + "Please make sure you are aware of the terms of this license before + installing or running our software. Please also note that game assets + are Non Free and should not be included as part of a Linux distribution + or made available in any repositories." - As a result of the bug report, Debian created a new package version, 1.08-dfsg-1, in Debian unstable, with the following changelog from version 1.08-1 (in Intrepid): - - * Remove all music and sound files from the upstream tarball, as they are - not DFSG compliant. Closes: #495484 - * Do not put all data files in one PAK file anymore. - * Put the other data files into a blobwars-data package. Closes: #288173 - * Ignore missing sound and music files. + According to Wikipedia[2], "artwork (including textures and 3D models), + sound effects and music, text, dialogue" are game assets. - To keep universe free as in freedom, this change should be synced from - Debian. + See attached correspondence with upstream[3] and a forum thread[4]. An + explanation of the most relevant parts of the forum thread is available + as a comment on this bug[5]. - But even more importantly, the upstream vendor of Blob Wars states the - following in the Blob Wars home page under section "License": - - "Source code is distributed under the GNU General Public License. - Resources are Non Free. This game should not be added to Linux - distributions or respositories. " + [1] http://www.parallelrealities.co.uk/faqs.php#License%20FAQ + [2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Game_development#Duration + [3] http://launchpadlibrarian.net/17566231/upstream-contact-updated.txt + [4] http://www.happypenguin.org/forums/viewtopic.php?t=4725 + [5] https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/blobwars/+bug/268397/comments/10 ** Changed in: blobwars (Ubuntu) Status: Fix Released => Incomplete -- blobwars license restrictions https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/268397 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
