Bug#461659: warsow: New version of warsow possibly non-distributable.

Vincent Fourmond fourmond at gmail.com
Tue Jan 22 09:02:09 UTC 2008


  Hello,

  Seems I've completely missed the point in my first post.

On Jan 21, 2008 10:26 PM, Andres Mejia <mcitadel at gmail.com> wrote:
>    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.

  This two points are contradictory: 3 says no one can distribute, 4
says it's fine to distribute if you don't touch anything. Moreover,
there are two different groups mentioned in here: the 'Chasseurs de
bots association' and the 'Warsow Team'. We'd better take this to
debian-legal. To me, it looks like a very badly-written license with
ambiguous clauses.

  Cheers,

      Vincent





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