2008/9/18 Jamie Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Multiple tar.gz files could probably fix that - or requiring users to > checkout from the revision control system. That may very well mean the > data will be in non-free and the game in contrib, but that is not unlike > GFDL licensed documentation that isn't free enough for main.
I wasn't referring to non-free data, but instead of DFSG-data with a license not-compatible with GPL. Such as GPL'ed engine and CC-by-sa 3.0 data. They should both go to main, as both would be DFSG-free, but with not-compatible licenses. The scenario you're describing wouldn't be suitable anyway either if you consider them to be a whole as Arc is saying, because the licenses would be incompatible no matter in which repository you place them. > I'm certainly familiar with the GPL and know you could apply it to code > and data, but, you need to consider - 1) people will make replacement > game data anyway regardless of license (and that isn't necessarily a bad > thing) - 2) We may not wish the data to be as "free" as the code. > Perhaps we want to have our names attributed to our work on a prominent > place (eg it could help with our careers to be known for "awesome game > data" in "cool opensource game"), perhaps we don't want it to be > commercially distributed by non-copyright holders, perhaps we don't want > it to be modified. That's a different situation you're describing, as you're talking about non-free data. In any case, you would also have the same problem of non-redistributability depending on how you interpret GPL, but I was meaning a situation in which data was free. > If you really want to change these license on the data files, I'd > strongly suggest you contact the copyright holders (and there may be > many of them in some projects) and find out why they picked the license > they did, and once you have done that, see if they would be interested > in relicensing it to match the code. If upstream is using a third party GPL'ed engine (say quake, for example) and Arc's extreme interpretation of GPL was right,they wouldn't legally be able to distribute the game themselves. It is nothing Debian-specific. Greetings, Miry -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
