Arun Raghavan wrote: > On Sat, 2009-05-02 at 18:17 +0200, Mounir Lamouri wrote: > [...] > >> I think the code can be considered GPL-2 (i will check if there is no >> header specifying something else) and for the fonts, I will have to add >> 2 licenses not in the tree at the moment. >> But what to do with the songs ? I suppose it's not the first GPL game >> having "non very clear" license about data. How games team is managing >> that ? >> > > The fonts license seems to be the same as licenses/BitstreamVera which > is in-tree. > > As for the songs, does it make sense to put that in a separate package > that the code package depends on? The package can have the restrictive > license it is distributed under and RESTRICT="mirror bindist". > > -- Arun > I've contacted upstream and I sent me the Debian bug [1] about fretsonfire. They suffered from similar issues.
To solve fonts issue, I think we can fix that like Debian: using other fonts. We can even using the same ones. To solve the songs issue, I see two solutions: 1. removing songs from the tarball (should we do/mirror a new tarball ?) and adding packages with free songs (Debian's solution) 2. using RESTRICT="mirror bindist" as Arun proposed (btw, is bindist really for "binary" because it's in python so there is no binary) I don't know if we can solve the song issue with a separated package. Because this songs are following the Toesto (Finish organization to protect artists work iirc) rules they must be bundled with the game. We probably should do the same. Or maybe RESTRICT="fetch" can solve this ? I think the real issue with the songs is there is no real license linked with it except "you can't do anything with them except listening to". I think even with the most restrictive parameters, we can't deal with that. Am I right ? I think the most secure way for Gentoo is to do as Debian is doing. May be even using Debian's package. I would appreciate some help/advice here as I'm not a lawyer :) [1] http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=383316 Thanks, Mounir
