Bug#461659: Fwd: Re: warsow: Clarification for the Warsow Content License

[Andres Mejia]

Here's the response I received from the Warsow project founder. There should 
be no problem with getting the Warsow content using the new license into 
Debian, as far as I know.

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Subject: Re: warsow: Clarification for the Warsow Content License
Date: Thursday 28 February 2008
From: "solomonk at warsow.net" <slk.zombie at gmail.com>
To: "Andres Mejia" <mcitadel at gmail.com>

hello Andres,
sorry for the late answer. Anyway, since warsow 0.42 is out, the answer is
yes, yes and yes =)
best regards,
Fabrice Demurger

2008/2/18, Andres Mejia <mcitadel at gmail.com>:
>
> Hello,
>
> I have some more questions for the chasseur de bots team. The Warsow
> Content
> License states that the warsow archive can be re-compressed into any
> format
> (including .deb). Can anyone take the documentation from the warsow
> archive
> and place it in a separate package? Also, can the files in the warsow
> archive
> be rearranged into different directories, have files added into the
> package,
> and have files excluded from the package before re-compressing the
> archive?
>
>
> On Monday 28 January 2008 8:15:19 am you wrote:
> > Hello Andres,
> > I'm warsow founder.
> > Thanks for your extended mail, I forwarded it to the team. We are
> currently
> > making any changes needed, the reference to warsow Team will disappear
> in
> > 041's license.
> >
> > Last, you can consider this answer is position both from chasseur de
> bots
> > and warsow team.
> > Best regards and have a nice day,
> >
> > Solomonk / Fabrice Demurger
> >
> > 2008/1/25, Andres Mejia <mcitadel at gmail.com>:
> > > Dear Warsow Team,
> > >
> > > I wasn't sure who exactly to contact about this so I've decided to
> > > contact everybody whose email address was posted in the contact.txt
> > > file of the Warsow archive/installer.
> > >
> > > I and other Debian users would like to create and distribute a package
> > > for the new version of Warsow (0.4). Before I get started on the new
> > > packages, we have some concerns about the Warsow Content License that
> > > we'll need clarification for.
> > >
> > > The license states "Assets that are property of Chasseur de bots, use
> > > the following Warsow Content License."
> > >
> > > Then there are these two clauses.
> > > "   3. You may not copy, modify, publish, transmit, sell, participate
> > > in the transfer or sale or reproduce, create Derivative Works from,
> > > distribute, perform, display or in any way exploit any of the Material
> > > released under this License unless expressly permitted by the Warsow
> > > Team.
> > >
> > >    4. You may freely distribute the Warsow archive/installer
> > > unmodified on any media. You may re-compress using different archival
> > > formats suitable for your OS (i.e. zip/tgz/rpm/deb/dmg), any changes
> > > beyond that require explicit permission of the Chasseur de bots
> > > association."
> > >
> > > In clause 3 when it's stated, "unless expressly permitted by the
> > > Warsow Team," did you really mean to say the "Warsow Team" or
> > > "Chasseur de bots"? I ask this since it's stated that the license
> > > applies to "Assets that are property of Chasseur de bots". If you did
> > > mean to say the "Warsow Team", can it be assumed that the members of
> > > the Warsow Team are those listed in the Warsow team page
> > > http://www.warsow.net/?page=team or is there a different list?
> > >
> > > In regards to clause 4, a Debian package includes a tarball (orig
> > > tarball) that would contain the original source (a tarball named
> > > <package-name>_<version>.orig.tar.gz). The Warsow archive/installer
> > > can be delivered unmodified in the orig tarball, but this would be a
> > > problem for the deb package.
> > >
> > > The deb package contains the files in a manner that is compliant with
> > > the Filesystem Hierarchy Standard. So the Warsow content would need to
> > > reside in /usr/share/games/warsow-data/. Documentation would be placed
> > > in /usr/share/doc/warsow-data/. A Debian package also would add in
> > > other documentation that are related with the Debian package or are
> > > for Debian users. The changelog.txt file from the Warsow
> > > archive/installer is renamed to upstream_changelog.txt so as not to
> > > confuse it with changelog.Debian.gz, which is the changelog for the
> > > Debian packaging. Also, the changelog files are always compressed
> > > using gzip, regardless of its size. Also, the binaries from the Warsow
> > > archive/installer are included in a separate package that has the
> > > binaries built from the SDK. So the binaries from the Warsow
> > > archive/installer are not included in the deb package with the Warsow
> > > content. The scripts from the Warsow archive/installer are also not
> > > used. Even if they were used, they would need to be modified for use
> > > in a Debian system and included in the package with the binaries.
> > > Also, in the package with the binaries, some of the documentation from
> > > the Warsow archive/installer is included in the package's "diff.gz"
> > > file that contains the makefile script and other files necessary to
> > > build a Debian package. This way, the documentation from the Warsow
> > > archive/installer can be delivered in both packages.
> > >
> > > With all this said, there are things that are added to, modified, and
> > > deleted from the Warsow archive/installer in order to create packages
> > > for Debian. Most of the modifications I've listed are meant as a way
> > > to create and deliver a Debian package. Some others are for purposes
> > > of complying with Debian policy. What I'm generally asking in regards
> > > to this is, can it be acceptable to build and deliver Debian packages
> > > without having to leave the Warsow archive/installer unmodified?
> > >
> > > There is also some other things I want clarification for. I'm assuming
> > > that the Warsow archive/installer is the warsow_0.4_unified.zip file.
> > > Am I correct? Also, I'm assuming that when it's stated that the Warsow
> > > Content License "is applied to all
> > > art/models/music/texts/names/setting/... present in the game", that
> > > this means "art/models/music/texts/names/setting/..." that would
> > > appear only while playing the game. Am I correct?
> > >
> > > If you respond, please email the Debian Games Developers' list at
> > > debian-devel-games at lists.debian.org and also the Bug Tracking System
> > > for Bug #461659 at 461659 at bugs.debian.org. In your response, please
> > > also clarify if the response is the position of Chasseur de bots
> > > and/or the Warsow Team.
> > >
> > > --
> > > Regards,
> > > Andres Mejia
>
>
>
>
> --
> Regards,
>
> Andres
>

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Regards,
Andres