Hi, Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso <jord...@gmail.com> writes:
> Simutrans has a non-free license. In the source tree, > simutrans/copyright.txt forbids modification and commercial use of > Simutrans, despite claiming to otherwise be under the artistic license. It does say that selling and modification is forbidden without written permission by the author, but says that the source code is available under the Artistic License later. I would think that counts as written permission? Simutrans may not be sold or modified in any way without written permission by the author. [...] The source code from the program is available under the Artistic Licence. Note that the simutrans/licence.txt file clarifies that "source code" includes all the other files included: translations, MIDI files and fonts. The game data (pak64) is also licensed under the Artistic License. See the copyright file for the simutrans-pak64 package. Moritz Muehlenhoff <j...@inutil.org> writes: > This copyright notice is very likely a historic leftover. I'm contacting > the current developer team for clarification. There is even a forum post where the original author states so [1], but the copyright.txt file at that time did not even include the note that the source code is available under the Artistic License (see a few posts before the one I linked to). Moritz, did you already contact upstream? I did not see a post in the forum that upstream uses. They did clarify license terms and even re-licensed the game data when I asked them about it, but don't care too much otherwise. They might be rightfully a bit annoyed right now due to [2] a few days ago... Regards, Ansgar [1] <http://archive.forum.simutrans.com/topic/06696.0/index.html#msg60560> [2] <http://forum.simutrans.com/index.php?topic=5574.0> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org