Adrian Bunk <b...@debian.org> writes: > On Sun, Nov 08, 2020 at 07:06:52PM -0500, Ryan Armstrong wrote: >>... >> I have been researching old terminal and X games recently, and realized >> that much of the code from 'xmille' orignated from the terminal game >> 'mille', which is part of bsdgames. >> >> Specifically, the following files are notably similar between the two >> games: >> comp.c >> end.c >> extern.c >> init.c >> mille.c & mille.h >> misc.c >> move.c >> types.h >> varpush.c >> >> Many of these even contain telltale BSD version/date comments, even a >> few not listed above that are common but extensively re-written. >> However, all of the original source files contain the 3-term BSD >> license, as follows: >>... >> This has been stripped out of all code in the xmille distribution. >> Also, none of the included materials give credit to the original author, >> Ken Arnold. >> >> I'm not sure what the best solution is, exactly. Extensively patch the >> source until it complies with the BSD license again? >> >> Presumably, the copyright file needs to change at the very least. >>... > > Keith, do you remember the copyright history of this code?
I may have copied the underlying mille sources *before* copyrights were added to each file; I started work on the X10 version of xmille around 1985 or 1986. I guess I could have mistakenly removed them? Thanks for discovering this error; I can fix these "upstream" and publish a new version? -- -keith
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