Christoph Egger schrieb:
However, since game-data-packager will require some work to finally support rott and since the upstream download location is still subject to change arbitrarily, we need an intermediate solution to this issue. Is it possible to mirror the rott shareware data zip file somewhere on a Debian server where the download location will not change? Of course the data is non-free, but according to the upstream license it seems to be legally possible to mirror it somewhere as long as all files in the zip are kept together. I am currently thinking of <http://pkg-games.alioth.debian.org/tarballs/>If it is really distributeable, maybee you could have it placed in non-free? This would additionally simplify a lot, right?
Well, the upstream license is from 1994 and they distinguish e.g between distribution "as part of a hardware or software bundle, or on CD-ROM" which requires signed written persmission and "by online-service" which does not require such written permission, plase see the attached VENDOR.DOC (ascii file, never fear!).
So I think it's OK to "have it lying around" but I don't know if it's OK to actively distribute it by the Debian package management.
Cheers, Fabian -- Dipl.-Phys. Fabian Greffrath Ruhr-Universität Bochum Lehrstuhl für Energieanlagen und Energieprozesstechnik (LEAT) Universitätsstr. 150, IB 3/134 D-44780 Bochum Telefon: +49 (0)234 / 32-26334 Fax: +49 (0)234 / 32-14227 E-Mail: greffrath@leat.ruhr-uni-bochum.de
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