Just forwarding this.
Original is from Linas Žvirblis for Debian.

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Warzone 2100 was rejected from inclusion in Debian, because it seems to
contain files released under licenses not documented in the COPYING file.

I have located these so far (but there can be more):

 install-sh       - X11 (MIT) license?
 COMPILE.html     - GNU Free Documentation License?
 data/novideo.rpl - Copyright (c) 1997 Eidos plc.  All rights reserved.

While the first two are just a matter of listing them somewhere in
COPYING and stating the licenses, the last one is definitely disturbing.

We need to clarify this before Warzone 2100 will be able to enter Debian.

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What do we want to do about it?

install-sh is from autotools. Perhaps we can remove it and recreate it on the 
user end?

What about COMPILE.html? Remove it? (There is also the COMPILE file.) Can we 
change that to the GPL? Do we want it to stay "FDL" and just mention it in 
the COPYING file? Or do we want to change it to eg. CC? What about other data 
and docs we add to the repository? What license shall that be?

What about the novideo.rpl? Was that in the original 1.10 sources also? Is the 
license just mentioned wrongly? Do we need to remove it? Can we actually 
remove it or would that break the code?

Questions, lots of questions...
Dennis

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