Am Mittwoch, 15. November 2006 10:37 schrieb Giel van Schijndel: > Dennis Schridde schreef: > > Am Montag, 13. November 2006 20:27 schrieb Dennis Schridde: > >> Updates on Warzone Licensing. > >> > >> As you can read in the forwarded mail Virgil is still in touch with Alex > >> McLean and I am optimistic that there will be good results for us. > >> > >> As we probably don't want to wait with the 2.0.5 release till February > >> (even though it was delayed for loooong allready), I think it is best to > >> get some readme's and license files written, > >> > >> > >> > >> which say that we are in touch > >> with Alex and working on getting the clear statement from him that > >> everything released on 06.12.2004 in that file is GPLed > > > > Per meant on IRC that it would probably be better to not say anything > > about that in the readme/license for now, but give it as a present when > > it happens that we get the statement. > > > > Sounds reasonable so far, question is what do we want to tell instead? > > Some distros were unsure whether to include the data or not due to the > > legaly unclear state, so it probably won't help if we say we distribute > > it under the GPL even though we can't be sure it is, would it? > > > > Do we want to inform them of our doings in this case or just wait till we > > get a response from Alex? (And hope we get it at all, otherwise we are in > > no clearer position as before, besides the fact that we know we > > distributed something as GPL which till then is not.) > > > > --Dennis > > > > PS: Sorry Christian that I forgot to write this earlier and you allready > > worked out a proposal. :( > > I think we should inform everyone that the current legal state of the > data is unclear. Simply because this is the truth. We should not claim > it is legal to distribute it under GPL while we aren't sure that it is. So you proposal for the license file?
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