On Thursday, 5 October 2006 at 22:08, Dennis Schridde wrote: > Am Donnerstag, 5. Oktober 2006 21:01 schrieb Christian Vest Hansen: > > 2006/10/5, Dennis Schridde <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > ---------- Weitergeleitete Nachricht ---------- > > > > > > Subject: Re: [Warzone-dev] Draft for a mail to the FSF > > > Date: Mittwoch, 4. Oktober 2006 18:55 > > > From: Dan Ravicher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > To: Dennis Schridde <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > > (...) > > > > > Attempting to contact the copyright holder in *a documented fashion* is > > > one excellent step to take. > > > > Certified snail-mail sounds more documented to me, than do e-mail. > Ok. Any ideas how he means how that should happen? > > I interprete it as: > Send them a mail telling them that you use the Warzone data under these > assumptions. If they don't answer in a given time then we can say in court > that they knew about it, but didn't do anything and thus they now can't do > anything anymore either.
That still leaves the actual licensing question unanswered, and thus the distribution of Warzone via gna.org and Linux distributors. As the source is definitely GPL, we can leave that on gna.org, and put the data repository on another host (wz2100.net, or Virgil's offer). I'm sure Debian will not include Warzone with the current license terms, and most others probably won't as well (at least the commercial ones, to protect them from lawsuits; a "well, nobody has complained yet" will not convince them). I hope Virgil's effort will succeed, else we need someone else to contact. I guess if Virgil gets no answer, contacting Pivotal again is quite useless. As both Pivotal and Eidos now belong to SCi, we might contact them. But if they do not ignore us they will probably involve Pivotal again, so I think we should wait with any further action until we can be sure Virgil's inquiry was unsuccessful. And as he said, "Corporate movement when not called to any obvious self-interest is glacial slow," "as slow as pouring syrup in freezing weather." -- Old soldiers never die. Young ones do. _______________________________________________ Warzone-dev mailing list Warzone-dev@gna.org https://mail.gna.org/listinfo/warzone-dev
