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warsow: New version of warsow possibly non-distributable.



It appears that the new license for the data of warsow is even more
restrictive than the previous license. The new license reads.

Warsow Content License

Assets that are property of Chasseur de bots, use the following Warsow
Content License.

TERMS AND CONDITIONS FOR USAGE, COPYING, DISTRIBUTION AND MODIFICATION

   1. This License applies to any material or other work which
contains a notice placed by the copyright holder saying it may be
distributed under the terms of this Warsow Content License.

   2. Terms defined in this Article, and parenthetically elsewhere,
shall throughout this License have the meanings here and there
provided. Defined terms may be used in the singular or plural.
Definitions:

      � The "Material", below, refers to any such material or work,
and a "work based on the Material" means either the Material or any
Derivative Work under copyright law.

      � "Derivative Work" shall mean a work containing the Material or
a portion of it, such as a revision, modification, enhancement,
adaptation, translation (including compilation or recompilation by
computer), abridgement, condensation, expansion, or any other form in
which such preexisting works may be recast, transformed, or adapted,
and that, if prepared without authorization of the owner of the
copyright in such preexisting work, would constitute a copyright
infringement.

      � Each licensee is addressed as "you".

   3. You may not copy, modify, publish, transmit, sell, participate
in the transfer or sale or reproduce, create Derivative Works from,
distribute, perform, display or in any way exploit any of the Material
released under this License unless expressly permitted by the Warsow
Team.

   4. You may freely distribute the Warsow archive/installer
unmodified on any media. You may re-compress using different archival
formats suitable for your OS (i.e. zip/tgz/rpm/deb/dmg), any changes
beyond that require explicit permission of the Chasseur de bots
association.

   5. THERE IS NO WARRANTY FOR THE MATERIAL PROVIDED, TO THE EXTENT
PERMITTED BY APPLICABLE LAW. THE MATERIAL IS PROVIDED "AS IS" WITHOUT
WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EITHER EXPRESSED OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING, BUT NOT
LIMITED TO, THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR
A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. THE ENTIRE RISK AS TO THE QUALITY AND
PERFORMANCE OF THE MATERIAL IS WITH YOU.

   6. IN NO EVENT SHALL Chasseur de bots BE LIABLE FOR ANY DAMAGES
WHATSOEVER, INCLUDING ANY GENERAL, SPECIAL, INCIDENTAL OR
CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES ARISING OUT OF THE USE OR INABILITY TO USE THE
MATERIAL.


END OF TERMS AND CONDITIONS

Clause 3 of this license goes against clauses 1, 2, 3, 7, and 8 of the
Open Source Definition (and thus the DFSG). This to me most likely
makes the new version of warsow unsuitable for distribution through
Debian.

If anyone wants to dispute this, please reply to the Debian Games
Developer's mailing list and this bug.

--
Regards,
Andres Mejia

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