On Sun, Aug 21, 2016 at 11:08:12PM -0600, Anthony J. Bentley wrote:
> Ryan Freeman writes:
> > On Sat, Aug 20, 2016 at 04:25:03PM -0700, Ryan Freeman wrote:
> > > On Sat, Aug 20, 2016 at 03:43:34PM -0700, Ryan Freeman wrote:
> > > > On Sat, Aug 20, 2016 at 03:27:52PM -0700, Ryan Freeman wrote:
> > > > > I have created a port for Urban Terror 4.2.023.
> > > > >
> > > > > Big thanks to Charles Duprey (Barbatos) for merging in the patches
> > > > > upst
> > ream!
> > > > >
> > > > > I am unsure if the license markers are correct enough, please advise.
>
> The urbanterror-data license in share/doc/urbanterror/readme42.txt says:
>
> Urban Terror is a collection of files created by Frozen Sand/0870760 B.C.
> Ltd,
> community maps and community assets which are creditted in the map
> readme's. The files that constitute this modification are copyright
> FrozenSand/0870760 B.C. Ltd 2000-2012.
>
> Use of any file contained within the mod is illegal without permission.
> Anyone wishing to re-use any of the media contained within the official
> release of Urban Terror should first contact Frozen Sand at
> http://www.frozensand.com or http://www.urbanterror.info
>
> Urban Terror is distributed free over the Internet and is covered by the
> Quake 3 SDK licence agreement [EULA]. The mod files may not be sold [in
> any form] or distributed on physical media unless with permission from
> iD Software.
>
> I would not interpret this as allowing us to mirror urbanterror-data in
> any form. It sucks that people playing it will have to build the port
> instead of downloading a package but when upstream uses hostile licenses
> our options are limited.
>
> The engine code is GPL and doesn't have this problem. But because of
> this I think the RUN_DEPENDS will be more inconvenient than useful.
I received a reply from a team member of Frozensand, with permission to
copy his reply. Here is what he had to say:
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You are allowed to freely distribute the game and its assets online
(whether it is a package on some mirrors or the distfile) as long as they
remain unmodified (i.e. the assets in our pk3 files may not be altered in
any way).
Please let me know if you have any other question!
Kind Regards,
*Charles "Barbatos" Duprey*
*Lead Developer and PR Manager*
*FrozenSand / 0870760 B.C. Ltd*
*barba...@urbanterror.info <barba...@urbanterror.info>*
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Would that be good enough for us to set PERMIT_PACKAGE_FTP and
PERMIT_DISTFILES_FTP to Yes for the data?
Cheers!
-ryan
> Please update the licensing for urbanterror (PERMIT_PACKAGE_CDROM = Yes)
> and urbanterror-data ("no redistribute permissions" for everything),
> strip the git revision from the package name, and double-check the
> maintainer email.
>
> And USE_WXNEEDED obsoletes the LDFLAGS patch, doesn't it?
>
> Anyone else have thoughts? Seems like a fun game...
>
> --
> Anthony J. Bentley
>
