Re: RFS: 0ad

[Vincent Cheng <vincentc1208@gmail.com>]

On Mon, Apr 4, 2011 at 5:39 AM, Karl Goetz <karl@kgoetz.id.au> wrote:

On Sun, 3 Apr 2011 11:39:34 +0100
Philip Taylor <excors@gmail.com> wrote:

> On Sun, Apr 3, 2011 at 10:15 AM, Vincent Cheng
> <vincentc1208@gmail.com> wrote:
> > On Sat, Apr 2, 2011 at 11:08 PM, Karl Goetz <karl@kgoetz.id.au>
> > wrote:
> >> Not sure if all the CCs are required, so preserving them.
> >>
> >> [...]
> >> Is there code distributed under the terms of license_dbghelp.txt in
> >> this package? It would appear to be non-dfsg compliant, so may
> >> cause you problems.
> >
> > To be honest, I don't know. The files that are licensed under the
> > terms of license_dbghelp.txt are in
> > source/lib/external_libraries/dbghelp.cpp, dbghelp.h,
> > dbghelp_funcs.h, but I'm not sure if they're used during the build.
> > Hmmm...I'll try re-building 0ad with those files removed from the
> > source tarball and see if the build still works.
> > - Vincent
>
> dbghelp is only used for Windows.

I feel you still still be careful of the following:

iii.    Distribution Restrictions.  You may not
[...]
*   modify or distribute the source code of any Distributable Code so
that any part of it becomes subject to an Excluded License.  An
Excluded License is one that requires, as a condition of use,
modification or distribution, that
*   the code be disclosed or distributed in source code form; or
*   others have the right to modify it.

It may cause you issues outside debian too.

thanks,
kk

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Karl Goetz, (Kamping_Kaiser / VK5FOSS)
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Since dbghelp isn't needed for 0 A.D. on Linux, would it be preferable if I simply strip the files affected by that license out of the source package?

- Vincent