Bug#449475: Vegastrike copyright problems: fix waiting for upstream's expert

2008-01-15 Thread Vincent Fourmond
Hello, According to upstream, it should be reasonably easy to fix this problem by using a newer version of the code that does not have the copyright problems. What it needs is just some time from upstream's expert on the topic. Cheers, Vincent -- Vincent Fourmond, Debian

Bug#449475: Serious doubts about the distributability of a file

2008-01-08 Thread Vincent Fourmond
Francesco Poli wrote: Probably OK in non-free given that Debian is a non-profit organisation. Wait, wait: IIUC, we are talking about a work which is licensed under the terms of the GNU LGPL v2 or later as a whole, but includes code licensed under a non-profit-only license. The two

Bug#449475: Serious doubts about the distributability of a file

2008-01-07 Thread Vincent Fourmond
[please CC me and the bug for replies, thanks] Hello, The package vegastrike (in main) contains two files whose copyright header is reproduced integrally in this message. It seems to me that the copyright notices conflict, and effectively render the file not distributable, but I am not quite

Bug#449475: Serious doubts about the distributability of a file

2008-01-07 Thread John Halton
On Jan 7, 2008 1:38 PM, Vincent Fourmond [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It seems to me that the copyright notices conflict, and effectively render the file not distributable, but I am not quite sure; if this file is effectively a derived work from the work copyrighted by the Universtity of North

Bug#449475: Serious doubts about the distributability of a file

2008-01-07 Thread Francesco Poli
On Mon, 7 Jan 2008 15:05:40 + John Halton wrote: On Jan 7, 2008 1:38 PM, Vincent Fourmond [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It seems to me that the copyright notices conflict, and effectively render the file not distributable, but I am not quite sure; if this file is effectively a derived

Bug#449475: vegastrike: src/cmd/collide/prapid.* cannot be distributed

2008-01-06 Thread Andres Mejia
I've sent a message upstream about this and received a reply. I'll let their reply do the talking. Link to the thread is at http://vegastrike.sourceforge.net/forums/viewtopic.php?t=10013 I was under the impression Crystal Space is GPL code. That remark you quoted says nothing about the license.

Bug#449475:

2007-11-11 Thread Andres Mejia
This just tells me that it's dual-licensed. Shouldn't this be asked at debian-legal? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#449475: src/cmd/collide/prapid.* cannot be distributed

2007-11-05 Thread Vincent Fourmond
Package: vegastrike Version: 0.4.3.debian-1 Severity: serious Hello, After looking up copyright notices in the various files in the vegastrike tarball, it appeared that the files src/cmd/collide/prapid.h and src/cmd/collide/prapid.cpp cannot be distributed. Indeed, the code is said to be