Bug#461659: warsow: New version of warsow possibly non-distributable.

[Andres Mejia]

On Jan 22, 2008 8:29 AM, Ivan Vucica <ivucica at gmail.com> wrote:
> Sure, they don't have to give reason to anyone, but that will reduce the
> number of their players. Which is something they probably care about. I
> think, after reading your other posts, that with current license they
> might not only lose Debian as their distributor, but also other
> distributions.
>
> Bringing the issue to them presented like that will probably shake some
> souls on their team. Everyone, both "commercial" and "for-free"
> developers, want more users.
>
> On the other hand, they look like a pretty rude bunch, so perhaps they
> deserve removal from Debian. But not contacting them due to one guy's post
> (who is only a team member and not a team leader) and silently removing
> them should probably not be done.
>
> (n.b. I haven't tried the game.)
>
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> Ivan Vucica

Well, I'm not suggesting that warsow be removed from Debian. The old
warsow-data is at least distributable, so it can exist in non-free and
there can be a playable game with the old warsow. I'm sure the old
warsow can still be distributed through Debian since it's licensed
under the old terms. I'll have to contact debian-legal to make sure.

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Regards,
Andres Mejia