Matthew Palmer wrote:
That's rather what I gathered from the license, hence why I'm waiting for a response from Raven. The source page from Raven wasn't much help either. http://www2.ravensoft.com/source/Neither of those files grants your the right to make unlimited copies of the original source, let alone distribute modified versions. The "addendum" might be considered to allow unmodified distribution, but it contradicts the previous EULA. As such, it is not suitable for any part of Debian, as we cannot distribute the software in any form.
They're not, they're .acs files. I think I'm going to rename the package as acc-zeth once I get some license clarificition, since it's specific to zeth anyway.If they're the typical .h files, /usr/include/acc would be as good a place as any.
I've sent the author a message about this on his forums, I can't imagine he'd have a problem with it. I asked him for the official copyright statement, hopefully he'll get back to me soon.The contents of debian/copyright would be "the material in this package has been illegally copied from http://zdoom.doomworld.com/. I'm expecting the process server any minute." Why? Because absent an explicit licence to make copies, *any* copyrightable work has the protection of copyright, which grants to the author of the work the exclusive right to make copies. Anyone else making a copy of the work is in breach of copyright laws.
Get acc and zeth-doc removed ASAP. I don't know about the others. Certainly, anything released under the "EULA" is non-distributable.I don't see an obvious way to do this automatically, or I would. I'll see if somebody in #debian-mentors can get rid of it. The other two packages are basically GPLed, so they shouldn't be an issue.
Nothing in there grants anyone the right to make copies for anyone else. And since the licence mentions Activision a million times, I presume thatThe code is originally Copyright Raven, not Activision. Activision is only mentioned in the EULA. Nowhere in the actual source is Activision mentioned at all. But if I can't get a satisfactory response from Raven fairly soon, I'll see what Activision has to say, not that I expect them to be any sort of help.the copyright holder of record is Activision, which means that a notice from Ravensoft is kind of pointless. If Activision licenced the software to Ravensoft, or sold the copyrights to them, then that should be noted somewhere useful. - Matt