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Re: Announcing Lugaru 1.1, now fully DFSG-free



Hello,

I would be glad to work on this package.

Cheers,

Vincent


Le 17/12/2016 à 23:19, Martin Erik Werner a écrit :
> On Thu, 2016-12-15 at 10:39 +0100, Rémi Verschelde wrote:
>> Hi Martin and the Debian games team,
> Hello.
>
> (...)
>> I'm happy to announce the release of Lugaru 1.1 by the OSS Lugaru
>> project [1], which among other fixes and improvements is now 100%
>> DFSG-free. Indeed, David Rosen from Wolfire agreed to relicense all
>> assets under the CC-BY-SA 3.0 license [2], and other mods that we
>> added to the main tree are licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0 and 4.0.
>>
>> You can read the full release notes and download the source tarball here [3].
> Nice! It's good to hear Lugaru is still going strong.
>
> Regarding the Debian packaging, I have not been playing Lugaru for a
> long while, and are somewhat unlikely to remain very involved in its
> future progress. Therefore I'm very open if someone else with more
> long-term motivation would like to maintain its package.
>
> I do intend to work on packaging v1.1 though, and have already started
> doing some meta-cleanup.
>
> (...)
>> If you are fluent in RPM spec files, here's the one I used for Mageia [5].
> This will be a great help, and given that the current Debian packaging
> is still based on a hacky importing workflow from mercurial into Git,
> this sounds like a good time to also clean this up and start from the
> new upstream.
>
>> ## Package naming and versioning
>>
>> We suggest to use `lugaru` as binary and package name. "OSS Lugaru" is
>> the name of the upstream team, but the game itself is still named
>> Lugaru / Lugaru HD, and is endorsed by Wolfire itself (they mentioned
>> us in their recent blog post about adding the Lugaru campaign in their
>> upcoming Overgrowth game [6], and the OSS Lugaru version might be used
>> in the future for their commercial version on Steam and the Humble
>> Store too.
> Regarding this, the openlugaru package was originally called lugaru,
> but based on feedback from Wolfire Games, it was renamed in order to
> clearly distinguish this version from the official Lugaru HD as
> distributed by Wolfire Games[7].
>
> Has there been any further development with regards to the "trademark"
> in that OSS Lugaru now has permission from Wolfire Games to use the
> official "Lugaru"/"Lugaru HD" name?
>
> The blog post by Wolfire Games[6] do promote "OSS Lugaru HD", but
> distinctly under that name with the "OSS" prefix.
>
> If that is not the case I would definitely keep the Debian naming as is
> (or potentially rename from openlugaru->osslugaru to match current
> upstream naming).
>
> (...)
>> [0] https://packages.debian.org/search?keywords=lugaru
>> [1] https://osslugaru.gitlab.io/
>> [2] https://gitlab.com/osslugaru/lugaru/commit/51203b531b2054a8a7c40356e2108a5ec7b9f366
>> [3] https://gitlab.com/osslugaru/lugaru/tags/1.1
>> [4] https://bitbucket.org/osslugaru/lugaru/
>> [5] http://svnweb.mageia.org/packages/cauldron/lugaru/current/SPECS/lugaru.spec?view=markup
>> [6] http://blog.wolfire.com/2016/12/Overgrowth-a227-video-changelog
> [7] http://www.wolfire.com/lugaru
>
> --
> Martin Erik Werner <martinerikwerner@gmail.com>
>
>


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