30 Oct 11, 03:40AM
Hello,
This is mainly directed to flowtron and/or Brahma (Or whomever curently manages the AC copyright), but I figured that there's no reason to not ask it in public:
It is very possible that I have asked you this question before in a PM, and I apologise in advance if that is the case, however since only using PMs with my forum account before, it got deleted and all my PMs were lost :-(
Anyhow, my question is regarding Debian packaging. Current license of AC forbids changes, and in the creation of .deb packages there is inevitably some changes.
For example, in Debian, AC comes in two packages, say, "ac.deb" and "ac-data.deb": ac.deb is compiled from your source tarball and ac-data.deb is created from your binary release. To reduce install size, binaries etc. are removed from ac-data.deb, and I add manual pages, etc.
Hence, as per the Clause:
###
AssaultCube is FREEWARE, you may freely distribute the AssaultCube
installer/archive unmodified on any media. You may re-compress using
different archival formats (i.e. zip/tgz/rpm/deb/dmg), any changes beyond
that require explicit permission.
###
I'd like to ask formal permission, on behalf of the Debian Project and the
Debian Games Team, to redistribute AC:
* Under the same license as the original
* Still in a *substantially unmodified* form
* With minor changes and restructuring which should fall in one of the
following categories:
* Removal of items not relevant to keep in Debian
- e.g. the folder bin_unix/ and the included scripts
* Addition of content mainly related to Debian
- e.g. wrapper scripts, dependency metadata, manual pages
* Splitting of content
- e.g. creating several packages named e.g. "data" and "docs"
...Or something along those lines.
--
Martin Erik Werner ("arand")
This is mainly directed to flowtron and/or Brahma (Or whomever curently manages the AC copyright), but I figured that there's no reason to not ask it in public:
It is very possible that I have asked you this question before in a PM, and I apologise in advance if that is the case, however since only using PMs with my forum account before, it got deleted and all my PMs were lost :-(
Anyhow, my question is regarding Debian packaging. Current license of AC forbids changes, and in the creation of .deb packages there is inevitably some changes.
For example, in Debian, AC comes in two packages, say, "ac.deb" and "ac-data.deb": ac.deb is compiled from your source tarball and ac-data.deb is created from your binary release. To reduce install size, binaries etc. are removed from ac-data.deb, and I add manual pages, etc.
Hence, as per the Clause:
###
AssaultCube is FREEWARE, you may freely distribute the AssaultCube
installer/archive unmodified on any media. You may re-compress using
different archival formats (i.e. zip/tgz/rpm/deb/dmg), any changes beyond
that require explicit permission.
###
I'd like to ask formal permission, on behalf of the Debian Project and the
Debian Games Team, to redistribute AC:
* Under the same license as the original
* Still in a *substantially unmodified* form
* With minor changes and restructuring which should fall in one of the
following categories:
* Removal of items not relevant to keep in Debian
- e.g. the folder bin_unix/ and the included scripts
* Addition of content mainly related to Debian
- e.g. wrapper scripts, dependency metadata, manual pages
* Splitting of content
- e.g. creating several packages named e.g. "data" and "docs"
...Or something along those lines.
--
Martin Erik Werner ("arand")