It looks like I'm going to have to drop the music from the packaged version of Nazghul because as far as I can tell it has a noncommercial use restriction. I wonder if anyone has any leads on some basic free Ultima-style music that I could suggest as a replacement. The engine just uses ogg files, with a simple schema file that defines which songs get played where, so I can easily replace stuff if I can get replacements.
Currently there are fifteen songs, all taken from mfiles.co.uk. I still need to bounce an email off of mfiles to verify that the nazghul folks didn't obtain special permission. Actually I'm having trouble deciphering the situation, but I figure it's better to pull now so that we don't ship this stuff in F12.
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2009/10/19 Jason L Tibbitts III tibbs@math.uh.edu
It looks like I'm going to have to drop the music from the packaged version of Nazghul because as far as I can tell it has a noncommercial use restriction. I wonder if anyone has any leads on some basic free Ultima-style music that I could suggest as a replacement. The engine just uses ogg files, with a simple schema file that defines which songs get played where, so I can easily replace stuff if I can get replacements.
Currently there are fifteen songs, all taken from mfiles.co.uk. I still need to bounce an email off of mfiles to verify that the nazghul folks didn't obtain special permission. Actually I'm having trouble deciphering the situation, but I figure it's better to pull now so that we don't ship this stuff in F12.
- J<
Hi, take a look here: http://sourceforge.net/apps/trac/dungeonhack/browser/trunk/dungeonhack/media...
A developer told me all their content is GPLd, and they state clearly any contribution must be copylefted here: http://dungeonhack.sourceforge.net/DungeonHack:Copyrights
On Mon, Oct 19, 2009 at 12:37:12 -0500, Jason L Tibbitts III tibbs@math.uh.edu wrote:
It looks like I'm going to have to drop the music from the packaged version of Nazghul because as far as I can tell it has a noncommercial use restriction. I wonder if anyone has any leads on some basic free Ultima-style music that I could suggest as a replacement. The engine just uses ogg files, with a simple schema file that defines which songs get played where, so I can easily replace stuff if I can get replacements.
Have you listened to Wesnoth's music? I don't know if it is what you are looking for, but it's free.
Currently there are fifteen songs, all taken from mfiles.co.uk. I still need to bounce an email off of mfiles to verify that the nazghul folks didn't obtain special permission. Actually I'm having trouble deciphering the situation, but I figure it's better to pull now so that we don't ship this stuff in F12.
If you block this package let me know so I can pull haxima from the games spin.
"BW" == Bruno Wolff bruno@wolff.to writes:
BW> If you block this package let me know so I can pull haxima from the BW> games spin.
I've no plans to remove the game itself as it works fine without the music. (Honestly, I imagine most folks would turn it off anyway after a few minutes. There's only so much you can take.)
Technically I could drop a haxima-music-nonfree package into rpmfusion and cook up a haxima-music-free package with scavenged music so the folks who want music could have something, but that gets complex (user configurability? alternatives for game music?) so it's better to work with upstream before going to that much trouble.
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