On 02/13/2011 03:58 PM, Guus Sliepen wrote: > Hello everyone, > > I'm emailing you because back in 2008, it was announced that the music and > sound in Blobwars was non-free (or at least, lacking copyright information and > therefore non-distributable). All of you were involved in the discussion about > what to do, according to my email archive. > > Hans de Goede (from Red Hat) and I have found replacement music and sounds > with > CC-BY, CC-BY-SA, GPL and BSD licenses. We have also, in cooperation with > Parallel Realities, set up a SourceForge project where development of Blobwars > continues. We have just released version 1.18, with the new music and sound: > > http://blobwars.sourceforge.net/ > > The music was found via Simuze.nl, a site that recently closed, but was > similar > to Jamendo.com. Music from three artists (DJ Sjors, Ambick and SinQ) has been > selected. The artists have all been contacted, and were all very positive > about > the use of their music in Blobwars, and ensured we could use version 3.0 of > the > CC-BY and CC-BY-SA licenses for their music. > > The sound was taken from various other FOSS games, and in some cases generated > from scratch by Hans. Tracking all the license information and ensuring proper > attribution was tedious, but has been done. The in-game credits are complete, > and I have also created a DEP-5 compliant debian/copyright file, which has all > the information in a machine-parsable format. > > We believe we have fixed the copyright and distributability issues, but if you > still find problems, let us know. > > Blobwars 1.18 has been tested on Linux and Windows, I invite the BSD > maintainers to check if it still compiles on your platforms, if not let me > know. > Thank you for the update, I see this is in Debian sid. I'll look at getting this version sync'd to Ubuntu.
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