Package: tremulous Version: 1.1.0-4.1+b1 Severity: normal Firstly, it is with regret that I filled this bug, especially with Lenny due out soon.
I noticed this thread over on the official Tremulous forums: http://tremulous.net/forum/index.php?topic=9388.0 Tremulous is shipped under the CC-by-sa 2.5 license. A few years ago a person called Paul Steed placed some biped animations online and people downloaded them, however there was no license attached to the works. Tremulous has used these animations and created derived animation works from them. A few years go by and then someone notices this. There is a developer response from a guy called 'Veda' in the thread especially worth reading. The problem here is not that Tremulous is using the biped animation files, I'm quite sure that when Paul Steed originally made the animations available online that his implied intention was for others to use his work in a free way for personal gaming enjoyment. The problem here IS that the Creative Commons (shared attribution) license cannot be applied to these animations, as the tremulous devs has no right to relicense the derived works. I'm not sure I'd like to anticipate how you'd like to deal with this problem, but I'd rather have opened the bug with you and you close it than not open it at all, given the sensitive nature of copyright issues. -- System Information: Debian Release: lenny/sid APT prefers testing APT policy: (500, 'testing') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.6.26-1-686 (SMP w/1 CPU core) Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Versions of packages tremulous depends on: ii libc6 2.7-14 GNU C Library: Shared libraries ii libopenal1 1:1.4.272-2 Software implementation of the Ope ii libsdl1.2debian 1.2.13-2 Simple DirectMedia Layer ii tremulous-data 1.1.0-2 Tremulous datas tremulous recommends no packages. Versions of packages tremulous suggests: pn tremulous-doc <none> (no description available) pn tremulous-server <none> (no description available) -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
