RFS: 0ad

[Vincent Cheng]

On Mon, Apr 4, 2011 at 5:39 AM, Karl Goetz <karl at kgoetz.id.au> wrote:

> On Sun, 3 Apr 2011 11:39:34 +0100
> Philip Taylor <excors at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > On Sun, Apr 3, 2011 at 10:15 AM, Vincent Cheng
> > <vincentc1208 at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > On Sat, Apr 2, 2011 at 11:08 PM, Karl Goetz <karl at kgoetz.id.au>
> > > wrote:
> > >> Not sure if all the CCs are required, so preserving them.
> > >>
> > >> [...]
> > >> Is there code distributed under the terms of license_dbghelp.txt in
> > >> this package? It would appear to be non-dfsg compliant, so may
> > >> cause you problems.
> > >
> > > To be honest, I don't know. The files that are licensed under the
> > > terms of license_dbghelp.txt are in
> > > source/lib/external_libraries/dbghelp.cpp, dbghelp.h,
> > > dbghelp_funcs.h, but I'm not sure if they're used during the build.
> > > Hmmm...I'll try re-building 0ad with those files removed from the
> > > source tarball and see if the build still works.
> > > - Vincent
> >
> > dbghelp is only used for Windows.
>
> I feel you still still be careful of the following:
>
> iii.    Distribution Restrictions.  You may not
> [...]
> *   modify or distribute the source code of any Distributable Code so
> that any part of it becomes subject to an Excluded License.  An
> Excluded License is one that requires, as a condition of use,
> modification or distribution, that
> *   the code be disclosed or distributed in source code form; or
> *   others have the right to modify it.
>
> It may cause you issues outside debian too.
> thanks,
> kk
>
> --
> Karl Goetz, (Kamping_Kaiser / VK5FOSS)
> Debian contributor / gNewSense Maintainer
> http://www.kgoetz.id.au
> No, I won't join your social networking group
>

Since dbghelp isn't needed for 0 A.D. on Linux, would it be preferable if I
simply strip the files affected by that license out of the source package?

- Vincent
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