Contribution to Extras (an update)

[Victor Skovorodnikov]

Thank you very much for the clarification.  I'll get right on it.


Victor.


--- Hans de Goede <j.w.r.degoede at hhs.nl> wrote:

> 
> 
> Tim Jackson wrote:
> > Victor Skovorodnikov wrote:
> >> */Rahul Sundaram <sundaram at fedoraproject.org>/* wrote:
> >>
> >>     Thats incompatible with Fedora packaging guidelines. A written 
> >> license
> >>     should be included that is Free and/or open source is required.
> >>
> >>
> >> Should I get this written license from Paul Riche III, UR Quan Masters 
> >> developers or can I write it myself? 
> > 
> > You need to get it from him; as the author, he is the only person that 
> > can set the licensing terms. And in case you missed the subtlety in 
> > Rahul's message, it's not the "written license should be included" bit 
> > which is so much of a problem (though you should indeed include a text 
> > file with the package containing the license as written by the author). 
> > The main problem is the fact that the license he gave you isn't a Free 
> > software license and is therefore still incompatible with Fedora.
> > 
> > ("free for non-commercial purposes" isn't Free in this context; we're 
> > talking about freedom not free-from-charge here; see:
> > 
> >
>
http://www.fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging/Guidelines#head-76294f12c6b481792eb001ba9763d95e2792e825
> 
> > 
> > 
> > and, for some background:
> > 
> > http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.html
> > 
> > )
> > 
> 
> To be more exact, we're talking about images here, so content not code, 
> thus you only need a license which allows free (gratis and unlimited) 
> redistribution of the images with your game. This still means that the 
> non-commercial clause is unacceptable though. Also where did you get the 
> sound FX? those need to be properly licensed too.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Hans
> 
> 
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