On Mon, 26 Jun 2017 21:14:31 -0400 Justin Gerhardt <jus...@gerhardt.link> wrote: > I have reached out to the developers in regards to licensing. The response > I received via email was this: "Redistributing our headless is fine, As > long as you include a notice that all the program data and binaries still > belong to us". I have asked that this be included on the website or in the > tar ball yesterday but have not received a response. If it is necessary I > can publish the email with the dkim header demonstrating it was signed by > the factorio.com domain. I believe this should be sufficient for > distribution of the complete binary in the non-free repo.
It would indeed be best if factorio copyright holders publish a statement allowing redistributions themselves. Either via the tarball they distribute (preferred) or on their website. The second best option is to add an email (with most headers intact) of a conversation that you had with the copyright holders to your Debian package. Just make a file debian/copyright-email.txt and refer to it from debian/copyright. Though at the very least you should have an email with the clear notice that they want you to include. Saying "just include a notice" says very little. You should have an email that explicitly says something along the lines of: The factorio copyright holders hereby permit redistribution of the unmodified tarball by third parties. Copyright is [the company] and all rights are reserved. Or something like that. Thanks! cheers, josch
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