On Mon, 2007-06-04 at 22:34 +0200, Hans de Goede wrote:
Peter Lemenkov (in the CC) just edited the wiki and moved nogravity
from the
interesting games to package list to the list of games which we will not
package, because the readme in cvs states that the data files are copyrighted:
http://nogravity.cvs.sourceforge.net/nogravity/nogravity/README.TXT?revis...
However the readme was last updated February 13, 2005 and in februari 2006 the
datafiles were added to the sourceforge download page, see:
http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=131322
And the release notes of this adding say:
"Release Name: 2.0
Notes:
Changes: - Added GPL license."
See:
http://sourceforge.net/project/shownotes.php?group_id=131322&release_...
Which to me clearly means that upstream has relicensed the data under the GPL,
also notice that if you download the latest datafiles a GPL COPYING file is
included, and that that file is the only included license info in the data tarbal.
And for the final proof, here is upstreams FAQ, which states that the gamedata
has been relicensed under the GPL as of the 2.0 gamedata release:
"You state on the download page
"No Gravity is free of charge, covered under the GPL license [...]".
Well, look, if you say No Gravity (whichever spelling is right), it means
all of it, which I learned isn't true, as the game data apparently is
"only" freeware.
Source code is GPL 2.0. Game data is under GPL (big changes compared with
version 1.99)"
That's good news. When I was in discussions with them a few years ago,
they didn't seem to have much interest in releasing the data under a
free license. I don't see any problem with moving back onto the wiki,
but it would probably be a good idea to get spot in the loop with regard
to the licensing before approving the package.
/B
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