On Mon, 2007-06-04 at 22:34 +0200, Hans de Goede wrote: > Peter Lemenkov (in the CC) just edited the wiki and moved nogravity from the > interesting games to package list to the list of games which we will not > package, because the readme in cvs states that the data files are copyrighted: > http://nogravity.cvs.sourceforge.net/nogravity/nogravity/README.TXT?revision=1.3&view=markup > > However the readme was last updated February 13, 2005 and in februari 2006 the > datafiles were added to the sourceforge download page, see: > http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=131322 > > And the release notes of this adding say: > "Release Name: 2.0 > > Notes: > Changes: - Added GPL license." > See: > http://sourceforge.net/project/shownotes.php?group_id=131322&release_id=394567 > > Which to me clearly means that upstream has relicensed the data under the GPL, > also notice that if you download the latest datafiles a GPL COPYING file is > included, and that that file is the only included license info in the data tarbal. > > And for the final proof, here is upstreams FAQ, which states that the gamedata > has been relicensed under the GPL as of the 2.0 gamedata release: > "You state on the download page > "No Gravity is free of charge, covered under the GPL license [...]". > Well, look, if you say No Gravity (whichever spelling is right), it means > all of it, which I learned isn't true, as the game data apparently is > "only" freeware. > > Source code is GPL 2.0. Game data is under GPL (big changes compared with > version 1.99)" That's good news. When I was in discussions with them a few years ago, they didn't seem to have much interest in releasing the data under a free license. I don't see any problem with moving back onto the wiki, but it would probably be a good idea to get spot in the loop with regard to the licensing before approving the package. /B -- Brian Pepple <bpepple@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> gpg --keyserver pgp.mit.edu --recv-keys 810CC15E BD5E 6F9E 8688 E668 8F5B CBDE 326A E936 810C C15E
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