On 2020/07/05 18:48, Nam Nguyen wrote:
> I propose removing games/jag for licensing concerns. Upstream has
> stopped and I found that there was a fork that continues
> development. This fork is what Debian uses and the fork is run by
> $MAINTAINER of Debian's jag. I have a diff ready to update jag once this
> is resolved. It moves to qt5.
> 
> The licenses for some assets are questionable based on my investigation
> on waybackmachine. Namely, I am concerned about the themes by Fasticon
> like the futurama theme, with a strange "freeware" license.
> 
> I opened an issue here with the details:
> https://gitlab.com/coringao/jag/-/issues/1
> 
> For now, I propose removing games/jag until the new upstream can clarify
> what can be distributed. I would guess that deleting all themes but the
> default could work. Credits in the JAG menu read, "Thanks to the authors
> of graphics, icons and sounds, which are used under free licenses in the
> game."
> 

imho no need to remove, especially if an update is planned (it's a bit
annoying readding a port that was previously rm'd from cvs) - just set
PERMIT_* appropriately.

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