Am Mittwoch, 15. November 2006 11:08 schrieb Dennis Schridde: > 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?
BTW, this is not exactly better than our current position, it justs states it more officially...
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