Am Samstag, 23. September 2006 21:20 schrieb Per Inge Mathisen: > On 9/23/06, Christian Ohm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Here's my first draft for a mail to the FSF Europe. I'm quite tired, I > > guess my style of writing deteriorated a bit to the end. Corrections and > > additions welcome, please keep the discussion short and on-topic. > > My opinion: When they released Warzone, they made very clear that this > was the best they could do, and it was an "as is" release. There would > be no support, no follow-up, and nothing else besides. Since then the > company has been bought, split up, reorganized several times, if I > understand correctly. I think the chance of getting any response on > this is slim to none, and it is also somewhat bad form to be pestering > them with it. > > People did try a few times to get a response out of them, and nothing > has come out of it. Now let go of it, and see what we can do with what > we have. I think our interpretation of it (source is GPL, the data is > probably GPL) is good enough, "probably"...
> for a game, and if that means Debian > cannot distribute it, we should look for a solution that means Debian > only need to distribute the code. We could, for instance, allow the > game to download its own data and additional scenarios with bittorrent > from a central server. There are bittorrent libraries out there that > we can use. Sounds like an interesting idea esp. the additional maps. > If you wish to hear what the FSF legal gurus think (and that might be > a good idea anyhow just as long as you do not ask them to do > anything), talk to the fine people at http://www.softwarefreedom.org/ > . They are there to give legal advice to free software projects, and > they are the best. The letter Christian drafted is not bad, and could > be sent to them, minus the parts where we ask them to do stuff, which > I think we should let them suggest, if they think it worthwhile. What did he ask them to do? Maybe I just didn't get it fully... --Dennis
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