No source code for wesnoth-music

2012-04-15 Thread Evgeny Kapun
Hi, I've found that music tracks for The Battle for Wesnoth (package wesnoth-music in Debian) are only provided as compressed Ogg Vorbis files, without any information used to generate them. I have two questions: * Does wesnoth-music comply with DFSG? I've heard that at certain point DFSG only

Re: No source code for wesnoth-music

2012-04-15 Thread Mark Weyer
On Mon, Apr 16, 2012 at 12:08:27AM +0400, Evgeny Kapun wrote: > Hi, > I've found that music tracks for The Battle for Wesnoth (package > wesnoth-music in Debian) are only provided as compressed Ogg Vorbis files, > without any information used to generate them. I have two questions: > > * Does we

Re: No source code for wesnoth-music

2012-04-15 Thread Guilherme de Siqueira Pastore
On Sun, Apr 15, 2012 at 10:38:34PM +0200, Mark Weyer wrote: > > * Does distributing wesnoth-music without source code comply with its > > license (GPL 2+)? > > No. The copyright holders can distribute their own work in any way they like, No discussion here... > but anybody else breaches the GP

Re: No source code for wesnoth-music

2012-04-16 Thread Gerfried Fuchs
Hi, first of all, I'd like to point out that this topic is NOT a wesnoth specific one. I have tried to bring up the point several times in the past (even years ago), it was always sorta ignored, even though people said that "yeah, surely the flattened images/music scores aren't source nor pre

Re: No source code for wesnoth-music

2012-04-16 Thread Francesco Poli
On Sun, 15 Apr 2012 19:58:59 -0500 Guilherme de Siqueira Pastore wrote: > On Sun, Apr 15, 2012 at 10:38:34PM +0200, Mark Weyer wrote: [...] > > but anybody else breaches the GPL 2 or 3 by not offering source code. > > ... but I tend to disagree at this point. Despite the possibility of > consider

Re: No source code for wesnoth-music

2012-04-16 Thread Guilherme de Siqueira Pastore
On Mon, Apr 16, 2012 at 07:57:39PM +0200, Francesco Poli wrote: > I am not convinced: if someone releases a work under the GPL without > making the corresponding source available, nobody else really has the > true permission to redistribute, as the license requires > re-distributors to make source

Re: No source code for wesnoth-music

2012-04-17 Thread Gunnar Wolf
Francesco Poli dijo [Mon, Apr 16, 2012 at 07:57:39PM +0200]: > > > but anybody else breaches the GPL 2 or 3 by not offering source code. > > > > ... but I tend to disagree at this point. Despite the possibility of > > considering these file types as source code for the relevant purposes under > >

Re: No source code for wesnoth-music

2012-04-21 Thread Francesco Poli
On Tue, 17 Apr 2012 13:52:38 -0500 Gunnar Wolf wrote: > Francesco Poli dijo [Mon, Apr 16, 2012 at 07:57:39PM +0200]: > > > > but anybody else breaches the GPL 2 or 3 by not offering source code. > > > > > > ... but I tend to disagree at this point. Despite the possibility of > > > considering the

Re: No source code for wesnoth-music

2012-04-21 Thread Francesco Poli
On Mon, 16 Apr 2012 20:56:55 -0500 Guilherme de Siqueira Pastore wrote: > On Mon, Apr 16, 2012 at 07:57:39PM +0200, Francesco Poli wrote: > > I am not convinced: if someone releases a work under the GPL without > > making the corresponding source available, nobody else really has the > > true perm