Guus Sliepen wrote: > On Sun, Aug 24, 2008 at 10:39:12PM +0200, Raphael Champeimont (Almacha) wrote: > >> As the upstream website says "Resources are Non Free." and the original >> tar.gz does not contain information about copyright of graphics files >> (at least I didn't find any), I was wondering if these were DFSG-free? > > According to upstream it's just the music and sound effects that was taken > from > online resources, the graphics were created by upstream. >
Ok, so as only sound and music are not free, it would be great if the game could still be played by using only packages in main. I see the following solutions: 1a. Make 2 data packages, a blobwars-data-non-free with the original data, and a blobwars-data-free with original graphics, replaced music (eg. you could replace all music files with music file song_revenge_of_cats.it from the gltron package for example) and dummy sound files (by replacing all them by http://www.almacha.org/almacha/files/1ms_of_silence.wav for example). 1b. Same as 1a, but keeping the "common" data (graphics) in the blobwars package, and only having blobwars-audio-non-free and blobwars-audio-free. I don't know if this possible, as it looks everything needs to be in one PAK file. A long term solution could be to replace sound files with free (real, not dummy files) replacements, but this requires some work and is not makable for the lenny release. 2. Have a non-dependancy between blobwars (from main, with code and graphics) and eg. blobwars-audio-non-free (from non-free, with music and sound) and patch the code so that blobwars works even if it does not find music and sound (currently missing music files only prints a warnings if USEPAK=0 and I'm not sure it handles correctly the situation if USEPAK=1 even if it does not crash, but missing sound files is a fatal error). Solution #1 has the advantage of needing no changes in the code, but requires you to create 2 new packages instead of 1... Saying all that is easy when you don't do the work anyway, so it's up to you if you want to make the game playable without non-free, or simply move blobwars to contrib as you probably intended... Almacha -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
