Bug#493350: Very nice open source game (AstroMenace)
Hi Dmitry, So let's wait for a next release. Meanwhile I wanted to see this game in action so I committed initial packaging to http://anonscm.debian.org/gitweb/?p=pkg-games/astromenace.git I'm leaving it there so please feel free to take over the packaging if you have time. I pushed few commits to this repo. Package in FTBFS now, but this could be easy fixed. Package of course is not ready yet and it requires more time than I have now. Hope I will find enough free time soon. Any help is welcome. Best wishes, Boris -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-wnpp-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/1872461355786...@web24f.yandex.ru
Bug#493350: Very nice open source game (AstroMenace)
After small discussion [1] I can give brief info about current situation with licenses for data files: * There are ttf fonts under own free licenses which compatible with GPLv3. There are bundled fonts from fonts-liberation and fonts-freefont-ttf. Yes, upstream needs in these bundled fonts for a crossplatform reason. However source of one font file is unclear: RAW_VFS_DATA/FONT/Ubuntu-B.ttf I was curious about which font package Ubuntu-B.ttf belongs to and it seems it is part of ttf-ubuntu-font-family in Ubuntu. Yes, all is described here: http://sourceforge.net/p/openastromenace/code/234/tree/License.txt#l60 However if i understand bug report #603157 [1] correctly, ftp-masters consider the Ubuntu Font License to be non-free at the moment. It seems another blocker is that you can't build the fonts from source with tools in main. [1] http://bugs.debian.org/603157 Yes, you are right. Maybe we can substitute Ubuntu-B.ttf with a free font? Only if maintainer make necessary patches in the package. I asked main developer about fonts. He replied that upstream won't support other fonts in game. * Another part of 3D models was licensed from third-party design studio. And these files come under proprietary license. Now main developer is going to re-licence these proprietary files under CC BY-SA and to update main file with description of all copyrights and licenses used in program. The problem is that some files are sourceless, right? Game developers have these source files but they cannot distribute them. But they can distribute generated 3D models. And CC BY-SA is the best choice in this case I think. Users will be able even to modify these files and to distribute the result. This seems to be the difficult part here. I don't see any problems here. Program with the most part of content is suitable for contrib. And some data files will come into non-free. Best wishes, Boris -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-wnpp-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/902451355406...@web23f.yandex.ru
Bug#493350: Very nice open source game (AstroMenace)
Maybe we can substitute Ubuntu-B.ttf with a free font?
Only if maintainer make necessary patches in the package.
Game developer wrote me small note how to replace this font in easy way to save
some time for a future maintainer:
1) Edit AstroMenaceSource/MainFS2VFS.cpp:403 -- string FONT/Ubuntu-B.ttf
2) Edit AstroMenaceSource/Main.cpp:49 -- {Ubuntu Family,
DATA/FONT/Ubuntu-B.ttf}
3) Replace old font RAW_VFS_DATA/FONT/Ubuntu-B.ttf by another one.
(All numbers in instructions are for a future version 1.3.1)
Hope this helps.
Best wishes,
Boris
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Bug#493350: Very nice open source game (AstroMenace)
Hi Boris, Thank you for discussing game data licensing with upstream. On Thu, 29 Nov 2012 06:52:36 Boris Pek wrote: After small discussion [1] I can give brief info about current situation with licenses for data files: * There are ttf fonts under own free licenses which compatible with GPLv3. There are bundled fonts from fonts-liberation and fonts-freefont-ttf. However source of one font file is unclear: RAW_VFS_DATA/FONT/Ubuntu-B.ttf * Another part of 3D models was licensed from third-party design studio. And these files come under proprietary license. Now main developer is going to re-licence these proprietary files under CC BY-SA and to update main file with description of all copyrights and licenses used in program. The problem is that some files are sourceless, right? So let's wait for a next release. Meanwhile I wanted to see this game in action so I committed initial packaging to http://anonscm.debian.org/gitweb/?p=pkg-games/astromenace.git I'm leaving it there so please feel free to take over the packaging if you have time. [1] https://www.linux.org.ru/news/games/8375237/page1#comment-8524508 (in Russian) Regards, Dmitry. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-wnpp-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/201212131522.39663.only...@member.fsf.org
