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Arun Raghavan wrote: |
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> On Sat, 2009-05-02 at 18:17 +0200, Mounir Lamouri wrote: |
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> [...] |
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>> I think the code can be considered GPL-2 (i will check if there is no |
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>> header specifying something else) and for the fonts, I will have to add |
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>> 2 licenses not in the tree at the moment. |
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>> But what to do with the songs ? I suppose it's not the first GPL game |
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>> having "non very clear" license about data. How games team is managing |
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>> that ? |
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> The fonts license seems to be the same as licenses/BitstreamVera which |
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> is in-tree. |
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> As for the songs, does it make sense to put that in a separate package |
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> that the code package depends on? The package can have the restrictive |
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> license it is distributed under and RESTRICT="mirror bindist". |
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> -- Arun |
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I've contacted upstream and I sent me the Debian bug [1] about |
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fretsonfire. They suffered from similar issues. |
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To solve fonts issue, I think we can fix that like Debian: using other |
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fonts. We can even using the same ones. |
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To solve the songs issue, I see two solutions: |
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1. removing songs from the tarball (should we do/mirror a new tarball ?) |
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and adding packages with free songs (Debian's solution) |
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2. using RESTRICT="mirror bindist" as Arun proposed (btw, is bindist |
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really for "binary" because it's in python so there is no binary) |
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I don't know if we can solve the song issue with a separated package. |
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Because this songs are following the Toesto (Finish organization to |
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protect artists work iirc) rules they must be bundled with the game. We |
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probably should do the same. Or maybe RESTRICT="fetch" can solve this ? |
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I think the real issue with the songs is there is no real license linked |
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with it except "you can't do anything with them except listening to". I |
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think even with the most restrictive parameters, we can't deal with |
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that. Am I right ? |
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I think the most secure way for Gentoo is to do as Debian is doing. May |
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be even using Debian's package. |
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I would appreciate some help/advice here as I'm not a lawyer :) |
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[1] http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=383316 |
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Thanks, |
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Mounir |
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