Bug#985184: REminiscence no longer licensed under the GNU GPL?

[Damyan Ivanov]

Hi,

(feel free to remove 985184 at bugs.debian.org from Cc if you don't want 
your reply to be archived publicly)

I contacted you about this on 1 January 2018 but perhaps that mail got 
lost.

While preparing an update of the Debian package of REminiscence, 
I noticed that all the license grants are gone from the sources. This 
makes it impossible for anybody but the original author to distribute 
REminiscence.

Was this an intentional change?

Here's the part that is present in version 0.2.1 and gone in 0.3.5+:

 * This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
 * it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
 * the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
 * (at your option) any later version.
 *
 * This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
 * but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
 * MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
 * GNU General Public License for more details.
 *
 * You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
 * along with this program.  If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.

The full diff is available at 
https://salsa.debian.org/games-team/reminiscence/-/commit/063a8ef67651de1f6810ad47b3002f2228e33cf1#ae0bcc2782149fe37425163d4b8132679d343fef

If you could release REminiscence with the GPL¹ licensing restored, 
I'd be happy to update the Debian package to the latest version. It 
has some features like support for SDL2 that would be really nice to 
have.

If the change was intentional, I guess our only option is to remove 
REminiscence from Debian. Sad as that would be, having a severely 
outdated package is of no service to our users.


Best regards,
    Damyan

 ¹ any other free software license like BSD or Artistic would do too 
   (https://www.debian.org/social_contract#guidelines)