The source tree on gitorious doesn't have the file with the
restrictions, which at some point complies with the information given by
Misery.
I don't mind maintaining this game for Fedora, but I'm just wondering
why it was asked on EPEL (Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux) and not
for Fedora. I'm not sure if people use Enterprise Linux to play games :)
I can also additionally maintain it for openSUSE games repository as
I've got full permissions there.
NM
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On Mon, Dec 19, 2011 at 7:13 AM, Mizery De Aria
<mizerydearia(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Did you mean that this:
Regarding licensing, Kiwisauce mentioned in the IRC channel
about using LGPL. Prior to providing the code as open source
the README.txt file had indicated freeware. It is likely that
Kiwisauce had not updated the README.txt and perhaps some
other files to reflect the transition to a permissive open
source license. Also, I noticed that those files are not
included in the repository. It may be that he simply forgot.
is "not really LGPL, and also can't be in Fedora." ? I am not
familiar with licensing practices, but I was under the
impression that if an author releases something as proprietary
freeware and then later releases the code for it with a more
permissive license, that the code would then be available
under that license. Perhaps though, first come first serve
type of license is applicable and regardless of what
additional licensing Kiwisauce my affiliate with the code,
that it doesn't matter and that the code will always be
proprietary/freeware?
It can certainly be open sourced. The problem is that it's not clear
which is really the case here. If it's really intended to be LGPL,
the other restrictions need to be removed, or at least documented as
clarified by the author. It could be that it was proprietary and then
opened, or it could be that they've said it's LGPL and are trying to
add restrictions to that. If the latter is the case, that's a no-no.
The former is fine.
-J
On Mon, Dec 19, 2011 at 6:57 AM, Jon Ciesla
<limburgher(a)gmail.com> wrote:
On Mon, Dec 19, 2011 at 2:33 AM, Nelson Manuel Marques
<nelson-m-marques(a)ext.ptinovacao.pt> wrote:
Hi,
I have just a question about the license...
It's shipped as LGPL, but
includes the following on the README.txt:
"This game is freeware. Please do not modify
or distribute without the
author's permission."
Sorry for the question (I'm not much familiar
with licensing issues),
but isn't this a bit odd ?
With that stipulation, it's not really LGPL, and also
can't be in Fedora.
-J
NM
On Sun, 2011-12-18 at 14:17 -0600, Mizery De
Aria wrote:
> I would like to help spread availability of
a linux game that has been
> recently open sourced by encouraging it to
be included in package
> repositories. I don't use Red Hat and am
not familiar with RPM and
> would like to request if anyone else is
available to prepare a package
> for the game. See
>
http://www.indiedb.com/games/beret/forum/thread/open-source
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