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

[Andres Mejia]

Hello,

I'm sorry, I forgot to ask about other concerns that myself and
another member of the Debian Games team had.

I'll repeat what Vincent (the other member) was concerned about.

"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."

That was his concern. My concern was that this license stated "Assets
that are property of Chasseur de bots, use the following Warsow
Content License." However, the last part of clause 3 mentions that
exceptions can be made by the "Warsow Team." Would this be a problem
if we are to distribute warsow in Debian?

Below is the previous question I asked earlier.

There's an issue with the new upstream version of warsow that I think
will make it undistributable, even in the non-free category of Debian.
I've attached the entire license file for the new version of warsow.

I want to know if it will still be possible to distribute the old
version of warsow. The old license states,

"Warsow license information:

The game engine is based on the QFusion engine and licensed under the GNU
General Public license. A copy of the GPL license should come with this
package, in file named gnu.txt, if not look at
http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl.txt

Game data files are copyrighted by their respective authors. You may only
redistribute the game data in unmodified form unless you have written
permission from the copyright owner."

Please CC myself and 461659 at bugs.debian.org when replying to this email.


-- 
Regards,
Andres Mejia
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