Bug#444199: ITP: freecol -- freecol: an open version of Colonization

[Alexander Schmehl <alexander@schmehl.info>]

Hi!

* Michael Koch <konqueror@gmx.de> [070926 21:50]:

> > License is GPL, I'm not sure though whether all art work is free.
> > 
> > Great game (though buggy sometimes...) !
> Alexander Schmehl did some prelimiary packages some time ago. But due to
> the legal issue with the art work he stopped. Please clear the legal
> situation with upstream before doing more work. Last time we asked
> upstream dont seem to care really.

That's one reason.  An other are some libraries, which were shipped as
precompiled jar files in the source tarball (IIRC I couldn't find
neither their source nor their license), and because I lost interest
more or less, when I found out, that it would be "only" a contrib
package, since it would need an dependency on sun's java :(

Preliminary packages are still available at
http://people.debian.org/~tolimar/tmp/freecol/, feel free to base your
work on them, I won't find to take care of them.

Oh, and if Michael doesn't invite you, to join the pkg-java team, you
are invited to join the pkg-games team ;)

Yours sincerely,
  Alexander