Bug#441435: warsow: Possibly contains undistributable data

[Moritz Muehlenhoff]

Package: warsow
Severity: serious

Quoting from http://www.warsow.net/?page=blog:

Recently acid, the mapper behind wdm2, wdm11, wctf2 and author of a number of textures on other warsow maps, has made the
decision to leave the warsow team and assert his copyright over these works. The reasons why acid has left are known to
himself and to the team. Whilst there is no need to go into the specific details here, it became clear that acid was
unhappy with the direction that warsow has been heading.

Make no mistake - acid's decision not to allow us to 'modify, reproduce, recompile, re-release or recycle' any of his
content and to leave the team is a big blow to warsow, and more importantly to the players, who have enjoyed his maps and
textures since the early releases. Due to these requests not being conducive to further development of the game/maps (see
comment posts) the warsow team has decided to remove content created by acid (wdm2, wdm11 and wctf2) and to create new
textures for maps that acid collaborated with others on (wdm6).

The non-licensed state of warsow media is what has allowed this to happen - and the team is now working on rectifying
this. This whole episode has been very unsatisfying and has highlighted the problems of not having a global media license
for warsow.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
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Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.ISO-8859-15 at euro (charmap=ISO-8859-15)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash