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Bug#224163: debian PvPGN



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On Mon, Dec 15, 2003 at 03:04:26PM +0200, Mihai RUSU wrote:
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> Hi
> 
> We have received an email from you (as a Debian project member) that you 
> would like to have PvPGN into Debian. We whould like that very much as we 
> have worked very hard on this project. However I know a little bit about 
> Debian and I know that Debian is very sensitive to "legal" status of 
> projects.
> 
> [...]

I'm aware of the problem with bnetd. I'm not well-versed in legal stuff but
this shouldn't be a showstopper for Debian. We have bnetd already and that
isn't a legal problem for us at least untill Blizzard wins the trial, if ever.

> [...] Thus we forked PvPGN. Because of the trial, the 
> PvPGN legal status is probably fuzzy. We took measures like to not have 
> direct links for download from our official site (www.pvpgn.org),

Uhm.. that explains why I got a 404 error when attempting to obtain the
source. Could you provide me with a link? Note if you provide it, the link
will be made public by Debian. If that's a problem, it is acceptable for me
if you send me a private mail with instructions on obtaining the sources.

> our main 
> activity goes over the IRC (the last "free" post), etc...

Which network / channel?

> However, if you are still interested, please check out 
> http://wolfheart.ro/files/debian/pvpgn/1.6/ the place where our Debian 
> packager keeps his last updated files (I have added him as Cc to this 
> email). Probably most of the details about Debian and PvPGN will be said 
> between you two (but please keep me at Cc: thanks!).

I will, thanks.

-- 
Robert Millan

"[..] but the delight and pride of Aule is in the deed of making, and in the
thing made, and neither in possession nor in his own mastery; wherefore he
gives and hoards not, and is free from care, passing ever on to some new work."

 -- J.R.R.T, Ainulindale (Silmarillion)



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