Re: [Legal concerns] Re: Angband

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Here is the license file:

https://github.com/angband/angband/blob/master/copying.txt

Mageia srpm is here:

http://distro.ibiblio.org/mageia/distrib/cauldron/SRPMS/core/release/an
gband-4.0.5-1.mga6.src.rpm

I took a look in the angband libre tar.xz. It is missing the sounds and
shockbolt graphics as I expected.

On Fri, 2017-12-08 at 12:30 -0500, Justin W. Flory wrote:
> On 12/08/2017 10:24 AM, Dennis Payne wrote:
> > I was thinking of trying to package Angband. I grabbed the source
> > and a
> > spec file/patches used by Mageia. I got SDL working but X11 version
> > doesn't run under wayland. Curses version complained about not
> > finding
> > a font. Obviously I can work through these but I have a question
> > about
> > licensing.
> > 
> > Angband is GPL (or the angband license if you prefer). Some items
> > in
> > the angband tar.gz are not. It explains which ones aren't. Mageia's
> > patch disables them so they are not installed (at least in theory I
> > haven't actually confirmed it). Mageia uses a source package of
> > %{name}-%{version}-libre.tar.xz. I'm guess they may have taken the
> > angband tar.gz and removed items to create it. Would Fedora require
> > the
> > same? Can we ship a srpm with non-commercial content like the
> > sounds in
> > angband?
> > 
> 
> Hi Dennis! These are good questions, but Fedora Legal is probably the
> best to answer this. I CC'd Tom Callaway to this reply, as he's
> probably
> one of the people who can answer this officially.
> 
> It may be helpful if you link to the license file or the Mageia
> patches
> as well.
> 
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