Re: Bug#247029: ITP: bastet -- GPL'd clone of Tetris, featuring a bastard tetris level

[Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>]

Hi,

On Sun, May 02, 2004 at 04:53:59PM -0500, David Moreno Garza wrote:
> * Package name    : bastet
>   Version         : 0.37
>   Upstream Author : Federico Poloni <fph@ngi.it>
> * URL             : http://fph.altervista.org/prog/bastet.shtml
> * License         : MIT/X
>   Description     : GPL'd clone of Tetris, featuring a bastard tetris level

If it's GPL why is MIT/X in the License field?

Also I don't think there is a need to specify the kind of license in the
description, if it's in main it's DFSG free.

> Bastet (stands for "bastard tetris") is a free (GPL'd) clone of Tetris(r)
> (built on the top of petris by Peter Seidler) which is designed to be
> "as bastard as possible": it tries to compute how useful blocks are and
> gives you the worst, the most bastard it can find. Playing bastet can be
> a painful experience, especially if you usually make "canyons" and wait for
> the long I-shaped block.

You may be carefull when using the Te**is nameas I think they used to
send cease or desist letters to people using it. Better ask on
debian-legal, as I'm not totally sure on this.

regards,
guillem