Author: eddyp-guest Date: 2007-03-06 16:56:10 +0000 (Tue, 06 Mar 2007) New Revision: 2459
Modified: non-free/packages/trunk/oolite/debian/TODO non-free/packages/trunk/oolite/debian/changelog non-free/packages/trunk/oolite/debian/control non-free/packages/trunk/oolite/debian/copyright Log: Oolite relicensed under GPL, too! YAY! First steps for the Debian package Modified: non-free/packages/trunk/oolite/debian/TODO =================================================================== --- non-free/packages/trunk/oolite/debian/TODO 2007-03-06 12:42:03 UTC (rev 2458) +++ non-free/packages/trunk/oolite/debian/TODO 2007-03-06 16:56:10 UTC (rev 2459) @@ -1 +1,18 @@ -- nothing :-) +- oolite relicensed dualy under GNU GPL/CC-SA-NC + - change copyright file clarifications at: + - http://www.aegidian.org/bb/viewtopic.php?t=3075 + - http://www.aegidian.org/bb/viewtopic.php?t=3072 + For Creative Commons licenses, you can get a nice, neat summary in the form of Creative Commons Deeds (which I linked to in the announcement post): + + * Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Deed, for resources (i.e., non-source code files). + * Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 2.0 Deed, for previous releases (back to and including 1.39). + + There is no official equivalent for the GPL, which is a more complicated license with a big baggage of politics. However, the Creative Commons project has a similar Deed summarising the GPL. + + The general intent of all the licenses used for Oolite now and in the past is that you may modify it, in whole or in part, as long as you don’t claim to have created it; however, you must distribute any modifications you make under the same terms. As of the transition to the GPL, you may also sell it (but not attempt to restrict your customers from redistributing it) – although Messrs. B&B may have ideas about that. + + Expressing licenses in terms of what you can do without touching on what you can’t do is inherently intractable, because managing restrictions on what you’re permitted to do is what licensing is all about. + - the upload needs to be done with the orig tarball (add -sa to dpkg-buildpackage) + - authors: http://developer.berlios.de/project/memberlist.php?group_id=3577 + - uploader would need to be aware of this + - BONUS: the game will be autobuilt on amd64, too. Modified: non-free/packages/trunk/oolite/debian/changelog =================================================================== --- non-free/packages/trunk/oolite/debian/changelog 2007-03-06 12:42:03 UTC (rev 2458) +++ non-free/packages/trunk/oolite/debian/changelog 2007-03-06 16:56:10 UTC (rev 2459) @@ -3,8 +3,16 @@ * NOT RELEASED YET * remove debian/svn-deblayout from the source since it holds 0 value for the actual source package + * the game was relicensed by upstream with the dual license model (GNU GPL + and CC-NC-SA) - this was acknowledged to be done also retroactively for + the current stable release of the game. Here is a quote from upstream's + announce on its forum: + The current official release, 1.65, may be considered to be dual-licensed; + that is, it may be distributed under its current license (the Creative + Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 2.0 license, herafter known + as CC-by-nc-sa-2) or the GPL. - -- Eddy Petrișor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Tue, 6 Mar 2007 02:35:20 +0200 + -- Eddy Petrișor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Tue, 6 Mar 2007 18:51:09 +0200 oolite (1.65-4) unstable; urgency=low Modified: non-free/packages/trunk/oolite/debian/control =================================================================== --- non-free/packages/trunk/oolite/debian/control 2007-03-06 12:42:03 UTC (rev 2458) +++ non-free/packages/trunk/oolite/debian/control 2007-03-06 16:56:10 UTC (rev 2459) @@ -1,5 +1,5 @@ Source: oolite -Section: non-free/games +Section: contrib/games Priority: optional Maintainer: Debian Games Team <[email protected]> Uploaders: Eddy Petrișor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Modified: non-free/packages/trunk/oolite/debian/copyright =================================================================== --- non-free/packages/trunk/oolite/debian/copyright 2007-03-06 12:42:03 UTC (rev 2458) +++ non-free/packages/trunk/oolite/debian/copyright 2007-03-06 16:56:10 UTC (rev 2459) @@ -16,7 +16,16 @@ distribution, other than the non-commercial clause. ================================================== +!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! +NOTE: This game has been retroactively relicensed with a +dual license model: GPL and CC-NC-SA. +More info (for now) at: +http://www.aegidian.org/bb/viewtopic.php?t=3072 +http://www.aegidian.org/bb/viewtopic.php?p=32115 +http://oolite.aegidian.org/ +!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! + Copyright Holder: Giles Williams and the Oolite project. License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.0/ _______________________________________________ Pkg-games-commits mailing list [email protected] http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/pkg-games-commits
