License question for new package

[Scott Howard]

Hello - I'm packaging something new that has a custom license, and I'd
an official opinion as to which repo it can go it:

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I have written permission to package this for Debian and all Debian
derivatives. The cube2 license they refer to is:

Moviecube is a Machinima tool based on the Sauerbraten game engine,
both of which are
covered under the ZLIB license. You may use the source code so long as you
obey this license, for further information see:

http://www.opensource.org/licenses/zlib-license.php


Is this a non-free program or could it fit into main?
Thank you.
Regards,
Scott Howard


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Re: License question for new package

[Scott Howard]

Thanks Miry for the reply!

On Sat, Oct 17, 2009 at 9:50 PM, Miriam Ruiz mir...@debian.org wrote:
 Have a look at this part: With the exception of content with an
 individual readme file, all
 content is copyright Platinum Arts LLC and permission is required for
 distribution. It is not even valid for non-free without an special 
 permission.

So if I have permission to package for inclusion in Debian, I am able
to package the entire extended set and engine into non-free? It seems
like they aren't putting much effort into making it free (or keeping
up with the debian free package you got them to do), so I'm thinking
of just taking what they give and put it as non-free until they start
releasing free stuff since we have permission to package it for
Debian. I'm working on sandboxgamemaker which would include all the
game mode binaries, the server binaries, and extended package set.

does that make sense?
Thank you for your help.


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