On Fri, 17 Apr 2020 14:51:47 +0200 Andreas wrote: > the license of the sound and music assets is not clear
that is the most common thing i notice when tending to one of these PCR packages which needs rebuilding - many of then are games and most games are never updated; and that is generally expected and not a problem - there is no reason to remove an old game if it still works but, the ones which rely on build systems, tool-kits, and languages which are quick to deprecate themselves, have a shorter shelf-life than if they had used more stable tools such as C, autotools, SDL, etc - there are ~20 year old SDL games which still are perfectly viable with no modifications - a python game OTOH, is not going to have such a long life without some TLC from its community On Fri, 17 Apr 2020 14:51:47 +0200 Andreas wrote: > We can also contact the original author yep thats the next step - ive done it several times - in my experience, one of three things will happen: * no response * upstream will fix the build problems, but will flat-out refuse to address the licensing issues * upstream will fix the build problems, and at least be open to the suggestion of fixing the licensing issues; but will probably not want to do that work in that last such case for example, the author refused to give the program a license, contending that because it uses the "love" game library, that implicitly puts it under the same license as the "love" library - which reminds me that i have not yet pulled it - that conversation lasted over the course of a month - i was given "verbal" permission via email to "do whatever i want with it"; but i dont think that is sufficient for parabola standards - i.e. that package should never hae been added in the first place _______________________________________________ Dev mailing list [email protected] https://lists.parabola.nu/mailman/listinfo/dev
