Hi Philipp,
Philipp Kern wrote:
> Yep. Reverse engineering clauses are void in Europe, but as you said
> upstream took them verbatim, so this is explicitly prohibited by
> Blizzard. So the software is hopefully free, and one component of it
> could be used without infringing ToS (Westwood Online).
Philipp Kern wrote:
> On Wed, 2006-06-14 at 23:24 +0300, Radu Spineanu wrote:
>> The support files are downloaded by the client when connecting to the
>> battle.net server. From those files only ix86v1.mpq contains a dll with
>> a hashing function, and the rest are icons and texts.
>
> Are those i
Radu Spineanu wrote:
(ii) copy, photocopy, reproduce, translate, reverse engineer, modify,
disassemble, or de-compile in whole or in part any Battle.net software;
>
I am not a legal guru, but this seems to prohibit distribution of the
support files in non-free.
Yep. Reverse engineering clause
Philipp Kern wrote:
> On Thu, 2006-06-15 at 14:23 +0300, Radu Spineanu wrote:
>> It seems they don't have a license. Every client downloads them when
>> connecting to the server.
>
> But Battle.Net has Terms of Service, so they count as a licence. The
> question is if they say something about thos
On Thu, 2006-06-15 at 14:23 +0300, Radu Spineanu wrote:
> It seems they don't have a license. Every client downloads them when
> connecting to the server.
But Battle.Net has Terms of Service, so they count as a licence. The
question is if they say something about those files and possibly
modificat
Philipp Kern wrote:
> On Wed, 2006-06-14 at 23:24 +0300, Radu Spineanu wrote:
>> The support files are downloaded by the client when connecting to the
>> battle.net server. From those files only ix86v1.mpq contains a dll with
>> a hashing function, and the rest are icons and texts.
>
> Are those i
On Wed, 2006-06-14 at 23:24 +0300, Radu Spineanu wrote:
> The support files are downloaded by the client when connecting to the
> battle.net server. From those files only ix86v1.mpq contains a dll with
> a hashing function, and the rest are icons and texts.
Are those icons made by Blizzard? If so,
I talked to upstream.
The support files are downloaded by the client when connecting to the
battle.net server. From those files only ix86v1.mpq contains a dll with
a hashing function, and the rest are icons and texts.
When connecting to battle.net the files are first downloaded and AFTER
that the
On Wed, 2006-06-14 at 02:25 +0300, Radu Spineanu wrote:
> Tommorow, i will talk with a pvpgn developer to see if the package is
> usable without the support files. If the answer is negative, i will
> upload a new version to contrib and request removal from main.
> Any suggestions ?
If you are in t
Philipp Kern wrote:
> On Tue, 2006-06-13 at 22:58 +0200, Jeroen van Wolffelaar wrote:
>> I'm sorry, but this is not an adequare resolution for this bug for a
>> package in main.
>
> I just revisited the bug report and I fully agree with you. The package
> really should be in contrib instead and p
On Tue, 2006-06-13 at 22:58 +0200, Jeroen van Wolffelaar wrote:
> I'm sorry, but this is not an adequare resolution for this bug for a
> package in main.
I just revisited the bug report and I fully agree with you. The package
really should be in contrib instead and possibly download the files in
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> reopen 278527
Bug#278527: adding pvpgn-support files to package
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> submitter 278527 !
Bug#278527:
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submitter 278527 !
thanks
On Tue, Jul 12, 2005 at 04:32:33PM -0400, Philipp Kern wrote:
>* Addressed pvpgn-support in README.Debian (Closes: #278527)
I'm sorry, but this is not an adequare resolution for this bug for a
package in main. The package is disfunctional out of the box
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