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@gmail.com> wrote:On Mon, Dec 19, 2011 at 2:33 AM, Nelson Manuel Marques <nelson-m-marques@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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