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Re: Bug#412063: ITP: rott -- Rise of the Triad: The HUNT begins




"Fabian Greffrath" <fabian.greffrath@web.de> wrote in message news:1172252061.15210.6.camel@localhost.localdomain...
A quick glance showed me nothing that seemed to prevent downloading
the data files from the ftp site, but it does bring up the question of
whether the port of the main program was possible without violating
[6][d] or the equivelent clause in the EULA for the non-sharewhare
version of the game. (Assuming that a clause like [6][D] is in fact
enforceable.)

Please note that the source code hast been released on December 20,
2002. This is more than 8 years later than the release of the shareware
version which contains the `VENDOR.DOC' file.

The original source code is released under the terms of the GPL and can
be found at <ftp://ftp.3drealms.com/source/rottsource.zip/>.


Ok. then I see no problem there. There would have been no reverse engineering needed, and the GPL licence would end up overriding the original licence on the program (not the data, of course).

Now, as for Debian, I suspect this package will need to be in contrib, but I'm sure you have already though about that.

In other words, in my non-legal opinion, everything looks fine.

IANAL
IANADD




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