Bug#854679: Clarify license for Beneath a Steel Sky

2018-03-10 Thread James 'Ender' Brown
As you can see, James, my points have been repeated. Please confirm that game authors were not deceived by section 3 of the license. ... really? This is getting a /bit/ silly now. Between Ansgar, myself. Simon and others I probably missed, this issue has been discussed in detail now. There

Bug#854679: Clarify license for Beneath a Steel Sky

2018-03-10 Thread James 'Ender' Brown
Hi Javier, Thanks for the reply! Reading the other BTS bug you linked, my understanding of the DFSG (and the commonly accepted interpretation) is the same as Ansgar supplied there: * Clause #1 covers re-distribution - must be redistributable freely as part of a collection of software. * C

Bug#854679: Clarify license for Beneath a Steel Sky

2018-03-09 Thread James 'Ender' Brown
Hi Javier, Original license author chiming in here again, since this seems to be a biennial thing :/ This is hopefully the last time I'll write on this matter, by this point pretty much every detail I can remember now documented across half-a-dozen reports in BTS. Mostly across this one and

Bug#478898: beneath-a-steel-sky: Not DFSG-free

2008-05-04 Thread James 'Ender' Brown
Hi all, Daniel: As the person who wrote said license, I spent a long time ensuring it met the OSG and DFSG, in consultation with various people on Debian-legal at the time (2003). If you have issue with a specific part of the license, please let me know which section. As Francesco said, the licen

Bug#478902: beneath-a-steel-sky: May be an illegal repackaging of copyrighted material

2008-05-04 Thread James 'Ender' Brown
Hi Daniel, Beneath a Steel Sky was originally a commercial game (released in '94 for DOS and AmigaOS) released by Revolution Software (also behind Broken Sword). The studio donated the source code from the DOS version to the ScummVM project, in 2002, allowing us to create a GPL'ed C/C++ replacemen

Bug#329157: scummvm: incorrect statement about sky default subtitle language in documentation

2005-09-19 Thread James 'Ender' Brown
This has been corrected in upstream CVS. In this case, the documentation is right and the code was wrong. British English should be, and now is, correctly set as the default language. Patch below: Index: sky.cpp === RCS file: /cvsro

Bug#322620: Please reopen the bug

2005-09-07 Thread James 'Ender' Brown
my questions... > > Ender, > don't you think that this dialog inconsistency is easy to fix and should > be fixed? > -- James 'Ender' Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#322620: beneath-a-steel-sky: subtitles inconsistent with spoken audio in a conversation in front of Burke's Bio Surgery

2005-08-11 Thread James &#x27;Ender&#x27; Brown
Linux 2.4.31-acpi-cfrq > Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968) > > Versions of packages beneath-a-steel-sky depends on: > ii scummvm 0.7.1-1 free implementation of > LucasArts' > > -- no debconf information > > --