On Sat, 2006-04-15 at 13:10 +1200, Michael J Knox wrote: > Rahul Sundaram wrote: > > On Fri, 2006-04-14 at 15:59 -0700, Victor Skovorodnikov wrote: > >> Hi all, > >> > >> Okay, so between the not so related to programming full-time work, > >> I've made some improvements to my 2D shooter game "Maximum > >> Destruction" AND have been in touch with Mr. Paul Riche III (original > >> SC2 designer) and UR Quan Masters development team. > >> > >> Both of them allowed me to use the SC2 game images in Fedora's > >> "Extras" portion for free and non-commercial purposes only. > > > > Thats incompatible with Fedora packaging guidelines. A written license > > should be included that is Free and/or open source is required. > > > > My understanding was that you only *had* to provide a written license if > the upstream supplied one. I could be wrong tho.... > > My libedit package is an example of this, no upstream license, but its > been approved and is currently packaged with out a license file. > > I would recommend that Victor requests a license to be provided in the > future (I did this for libedit), but the written license is only > required if one is already supplied. I would consider this bad practise. End users and developers should be able to look at the licensing terms easily. I suggest that FESCo discuss this. Rahul -- fedora-extras-list mailing list fedora-extras-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-extras-list
