Re: [Freeciv-Dev] (PR#40609) tileset licenses
On Thu, Dec 25, 2008 at 08:58:25PM -0800, Daniel Markstedt wrote:
> <URL: http://bugs.freeciv.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=40609 >
>
> Issue confirmed. Many tilesets do not have copyright notices in their
> tarballs.
>
> Freeland for example does have a GPL notice though, so not all tilesets
> are affected.
>
> Older tilesets are kept here with a COPYING notice:
>
> http://freeciv-test.cvs.sourceforge.net/viewvc/freeciv-test/tilesets/
>
> Is this enough to prove GPL status for these?
I'm not sure. I was hoping to see something like
Copyright (C) 2004, 2007 Peter Arbor
This work may be redistributed under the terms of the
GNU GPL version 2 or later.
The freeland README comes close.
On a side note, is it intentional that the files in
some of the tarballs are all mode 0777?
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