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commit 3554355b36abfd55cf954822249fd3b3497de9c6 Author: Arand Nash <[email protected]> Date: Thu Mar 10 23:05:14 2011 +0000 Update README.Debian * Notes on license and how it affects packaging * Only manpage for server todo * the DEP5 copyright is kind of complete now --- README.Debian | 30 ++++++++++++++++++++++-------- 1 file changed, 22 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-) diff --git a/README.Debian b/README.Debian index b3900d5..d753b99 100644 --- a/README.Debian +++ b/README.Debian @@ -1,18 +1,32 @@ redeclipse for Debian --------------------- -debian/patches/01_makefile.patch +debian/patches/01_makefile.patch: This is used simply to set a path which is guaranteed to work, the install process still copies from src/* because of the .install files used for menu items, this seems like something which could be done prettier. +Notes on the license and consequent packaging oddities: + The Red Eclipse license only allows redistribution of all game data, + (including bits which otherwise are not redistributable) if the only change + done to the tarball is recompression "using different archival formats + suitable for your OS (zip/tgz/deb/dmg)" + Because of this, the redeclipse-data binary package includes everything + from the original "tarball" (svn repo, as is the case here), _including_ the + source code, precompiled binaries etc. + + The redeclipse and redeclipse-server binary packages gets by under the + license of the source (Zlib) and enet ("MIT"/Expat). I have also created a + new icon (GPLv3) since converting any of the redeclipse icon bases into an + xpm is disallowed as per the license. + + Similar to the icon using the trademark "Red Eclipse" is probably disallowed + unless in conjunction with the "unchanged tarball", but this is ignored for + now. + TODO: -* Write manpage for client and server -* debian/copyright has inclusion of all copyright notices for content in - the data/ directory, the is not mention of whether copyright information about - the author is available. There are also a few shortcuts, e.g. left a link - to CC-BY as sufficient information and stripped the license text. +* Write manpage for server * The ENet network library might be appropriate to split off to a separate package? -* Similar to sauerbraten, the client and server may fit in contrib, wheras the - data is non-free. +* Bug upstream about licensing, which may in practice not correspond to their + intent. -- Alioth's /usr/local/bin/git-commit-notice on /srv/git.debian.org/git/pkg-games/redeclipse.git _______________________________________________ Pkg-games-commits mailing list [email protected] http://lists.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pkg-games-commits
