oolite relicensing

Eddy Petrișor eddy.petrisor at gmail.com
Tue Mar 6 17:15:57 CET 2007


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Marianne Ibbotson wrote:
> Hiya, I'm a girl with a debian desktop who's recently found oolite,
> which I absolutely love, and recently noticed on their website (I think
> on about the 1st or so) that they've relicensed to the GPL (as far as I
> know they're now dual licensing, GPL and their previous Creative Commons
> license), I also noticed that the oolite package is still listed as

Yes, this seems that has happened a week ago[1][2]. Nice.

> non-free, so I'm guessing it should be recategorised as free now, and
> thought I'd just send this little note about it in case you'd not noticed.

What is not so nice is that the data files are still licensed under
CC-NC-SA, so the game will still have to be outside of main, in
contrib since it needs the oolite-data which is non-free.

Thanks for pointing this out, I wasn't aware of the change.

[1] http://www.aegidian.org/bb/viewtopic.php?t=3072
[2] http://www.aegidian.org/bb/viewtopic.php?t=3075

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Regards,
EddyP
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