oolite relicensing

[Eddy Petrișor]

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Eddy Petrișor wrote:
> 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.

New packages (oolite 1.65-5 and oolite-data 1.65-2) are prepared:

http://pkg-games.alioth.debian.org/upload/oolite/

Simon, don't forget to build the packages with '-sa' :-)

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Regards,
EddyP
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