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From: Efraim Flashner <efraim@flashner.co.il>
To: Jonathan Brielmaier <jonathan.brielmaier@web.de>
Cc: Alberto EFG <albertoefg@posteo.mx>,
	Nicolas Goaziou <mail@nicolasgoaziou.fr>,
	40035@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: [bug#40035] Add widelands game
Date: Sun, 21 Jun 2020 09:33:58 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20200621063358.GA2024@E5400> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <9e375eb8-839c-7dac-173d-2f2a23075a3c@web.de>

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On Fri, Jun 19, 2020 at 12:58:02AM +0200, Jonathan Brielmaier wrote:
> On 18.06.20 23:22, Nicolas Goaziou wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > I integrated the previous suggestions. I am not sure about the version
> > string. Upstream seems to use "build-20", and most distributions use
> > "20", some use "build20" or "b20". I used "build20" because it makes it
> > easier to build the download URL.
> 
> Couldn't we just use the most recent tag on Github?
> https://github.com/widelands/widelands/releases/tag/bzr9203
> 
> > +    (home-page "https://www.widelands.org/")
> > +    (synopsis "Fantasy real-time strategy game")
> > +    (description
> > +     "Widelands is a real-time strategy game with singleplayer campaigns and
> > +multiplayer mode, aiming for gameplay similar to Settlers II by BlueByte.
> > +
> > +In this game, you start out on a small piece of land with nothing more than
> > +a few of useful resources.  Using those, you can build yourself an empire with
> > +many thousands of inhabitants.  On your way towards this goal, you will have
> > +to build up an economic infrastructure, explore the lands around you and face
> > +enemies who are trying to rule the world just like you do.")
> 
> Are we allowed to just copy descriptions from Debian packages? Is this
> license compatible?

We do sometimes just grab the license from Debian. Sometimes it's just
more convenient when a description is missing or is marketing speak.
Infact, for widelands, the description as they've written is under the
GPL2+
https://sources.debian.org/src/widelands/1:20-2/debian/copyright/#L65

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  parent reply	other threads:[~2020-06-21  6:35 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 [this message]
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
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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