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From: Nicolas Goaziou <mail@nicolasgoaziou.fr>
To: Tobias Geerinckx-Rice <me@tobias.gr>
Cc: Alberto EFG <albertoefg@posteo.mx>, 40035@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: [bug#40035] Add widelands game
Date: Fri, 19 Jun 2020 23:55:29 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87sgeqzpny.fsf@nicolasgoaziou.fr> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87eeqan4ga.fsf@nckx> (Tobias Geerinckx-Rice's message of "Fri, 19 Jun 2020 23:14:29 +0200")

Tobias Geerinckx-Rice <me@tobias.gr> writes:

> I don't get it: there's a debian/ subdir in the tarball.  It does not
> contain this patch.  It's not here[0] either.  I'm not familiar enough
> with Widelands/Debian packaging to know where else to look.  It's not
> the end of the world though.  It'll be gone by the next build.

I was confused. The patch comes from Debian's package[¹], not from
upstream.

>> Also, Debian's copyright file considers it GPL2+.
>
> Quite the opposite[1]:
>
>  Files: data/i18n/fonts/Culmus/*
>  Copyright: 2010 by Yoram Gnat (gyoramg@users.sourceforge.net).
>  License: GPL-2

Oh! You're right.

> I'm not lawyerly enough to know if the combined work can be
> distributed as GPL2+.  I don't see how.  I'd love to be proved wrong!

Debian does it nonetheless[²].


[¹]  https://salsa.debian.org/games-team/widelands/-/tree/master/debian/patches

[²]  https://salsa.debian.org/games-team/widelands/-/blob/master/debian/copyright

Regards,




  reply	other threads:[~2020-06-19 21:56 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-03-12  4:29 [bug#40035] Add widelands game Alberto EFG
2020-03-12 14:31 ` Nicolas Goaziou
2020-03-13  3:14   ` Alberto EFG
2020-03-13  8:16     ` Nicolas Goaziou
2020-06-18 21:22       ` Nicolas Goaziou
2020-06-18 22:58         ` Jonathan Brielmaier
2020-06-19  7:01           ` Nicolas Goaziou
2020-06-21  6:33           ` Efraim Flashner
2020-06-19 12:09         ` Tobias Geerinckx-Rice via Guix-patches via
2020-06-19 18:59           ` Nicolas Goaziou
2020-06-19 20:46             ` Nicolas Goaziou
2020-06-19 21:14             ` Tobias Geerinckx-Rice via Guix-patches via
2020-06-19 21:55               ` Nicolas Goaziou [this message]
2020-06-30 15:50                 ` bug#40035: " Nicolas Goaziou
2020-06-19 12:30 ` [bug#40035] " Tobias Geerinckx-Rice via Guix-patches via

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