ITP: warsow -- a standalone, eSport oriented first personn shooter

Gonéri Le Bouder goneri at rulezlan.org
Fri Jun 30 14:07:27 UTC 2006


Le vendredi 30 juin 2006 12:14, Bruno Kleinert a écrit :
> This one time, at band camp, Alexander Schmehl wrote:
> > Hi!
> >
> > * Bruno Kleinert <fuddl at gmx.de> [060630 01:02]:
> > > This one time, at band camp, Gonéri Le Bouder wrote:
> > >
> > > hmmmm.... i found this in the warsow forum:
> > > http://www.warsow.net/forum/viewtopic.php?id=9558
> > >
> > > maybe warsow has a chance for the 'non-free' section?
> >
> > I really like the following part: "[the Artworks] can be used as long as
> > you specify who are the authors and asking them their permission first."
> >
> > > i'm really confused about this game, though i like it, but their
> > > chaotic licence-foo is damn annoying :(
> >
> > I read the above basically as "undistributable until further notice";
> > since it seems no one ever checked any license with the authors of these
> > parts of the game, which means we have no license statement about it,
> > which meanrs we aren't allowed to do anything about it, which in turn
> > means undistributable and not even fit for non-free.
> >
> > Even if upstream could check that, I would still have a bad feeling,
> > that there could be more timebombs left upstream didn't check in their
> > chaotic stile.
i did a post on Warsow forum:
http://www.warsow.net/forum/viewtopic.php?pid=1101474979#p1101474979

For me, the best solution is to provied a Warsow base installation with just 
the enginen and map in specific packages:
warsow (engine)
warsow-map-mapname: free or not maps.
warsow-maps: recommended meta package
warsow-maps-nonfree meta package

Regards,


	Gonéri



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