Re: Packaging Love2d Games

[Steven Hamilton <oz@scorch.net>]

On 09/02/13 06:14, Paul Wise wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 8, 2013 at 6:16 PM, Paul Wise wrote:
> 
>> According to the readme.txt in the mari0 source zip file, the game is
>> non-free so please ensure you don't upload it to Debian main.
>> Alternatively, please ask upstream to relicense the game to something
>> free (CC-BY/CC-BY-SA 3.0 would work). At least one of the files in the
>> mari0_1.6.love zip file is MIT licensed though.
> 
> Several of the shaders are GPL, so I'm not sure that mari0 is even
> distributable at all, I certainly would not be comfortable uploading
> it to non-free.
> 

Thanks for the responses all. After looking over the files in the .love
package I'm not comfortable either. As you say the graphics look dubious
and I've also noticed 3rd party lua libs being distributed without their
own licenses included (Middleclass). I'm going to steer clear of this
one. It's been a good exercise though.