On 05.07.2013 23:22, Stefan Potyra wrote: [...] >> In short, looks like a promising and complex free software game which >> could improve our games portolio for sure. > > Yes! I've been playing earlier versions quite in depth, and typically I > built these from upstream sources. Most of the time, this worked without or only > with minor modifications. > > Sadly, my spare time is very limited, so I fear I cannot help with checking > data files. But if there are technical problems to solve, I'm happy to help out > as far as I can and as my spare time admits. Just give me a ping on the ML. :) Thanks for your offer. :) Here is a short update on the current state of UFO:AI. I have pushed an initial, unfinished, package to http://anonscm.debian.org/gitweb/?p=pkg-games/ufoai.git If you copy all the content under /base in upstream's git repository to /usr/share/games/ufoai/base/, then the game should be playable. Of course that's not very nice, so please be patient until i have packaged all the data packages too. I have created a new topic at ufoai.org and i am in contact with one of the lead developers who seems very interested in getting UFO:AI 2.5 into Debian main. [1] In regard to the obvious license issues with CC-BY-SA 2.5 and CC-BY-2.0, i have found more recent information how they are handled by our ftp-masters at the moment. [2] [3] Actually we can upgrade the license to version 3.0, which is DFSG free, because clause 4b) of CC-BY-SA grants us all the necessary rights to redistribute derivative works under later versions of the license. CC-BY licenses are even less restricted hence we can easily upgrade those "transitively compatible" licenses to DFSG free licenses. I hope i can finish those other data packages in the next few weeks. Cheers, Markus [1] http://ufoai.org/forum/index.php/topic,7822.0.html [2] https://wiki.debian.org/DFSGLicenses#Creative_Commons_Attribution_Share-Alike_.28CC-BY-SA.29_v3.0 [3] https://lists.debian.org/debian-project/2013/01/msg00096.html
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