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Re: ITP umoria, and general questions for a new developer



Radovan Garabik <garabik@melkor.dnp.fmph.uniba.sk> wrote:
>On Thu, Jun 01, 2000 at 02:16:50PM -0400, Rene Weber wrote:
>>     Also, umoria is (to my reading) non-free.  The licence forbids it from
>> being used in a commercial manner (see below for an excerpt from my
>> debian/copyright file).  Is this a problem?  The binary is also setuid
>> (games).  I can probably change the source so it's just setgid, but I
>> haven't done that yet.  Is that ok?
>
>I guess the binary needs to be setuid in order to write into score file.
>You have to do it... according to debian policy, games should be
>setuid games in order to write to score files.

That's set*g*id. Policy 5.10 explicitly says that games must not be
setuid.

-- 
Colin Watson                                     [cjw44@flatline.org.uk]



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