uqm-content licensing problem

[Xavier Naldo]

I am not sure where this is going, but it is better to be safe than sorry.


On Mon, Sep 8, 2008 at 10:15 PM, Tom spot Callaway <tcallawa at redhat.com>wrote:

> Hi guys,
>
> While doing the license tag cleanup, I came across uqm-content, which
> was marked "Distributable", but when I dug into it, the actual license
> is Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike.
>
>
> http://wiki.uqm.stack.nl/The_Ur-Quan_Masters_Project_FAQ#Under_what_license_is_the_game_released.3F
>
> The NonCommercial part is the problem.
>
> Unless someone here has documentation showing that the UQM upstream has
> given us permission to distribute these content files under a different
> (acceptable to Fedora) license, I'm going to have to block this package
> in F10.
>
> Since the game itself is fine, it looks like we'll need to set it up to
> autodownload the content (and quickly).
>
> ~spot
>
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