Bug#444199: ITP: freecol -- freecol: an open version of Colonization
Alexander Schmehl wrote:
>> 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 doesn't seem to be the case anymore as I got replies pretty
quickly. Artwork seems clear (might be necessary to change fonts, but
that isn't confirmed yet).
> 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),
I'll try to take care of that.
> 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 :(
Yes... Many great pieces of software need sun's java anyway. Quite a
few great games too. Let's hope that when the situation gets clear about
Sun's Java licenses, we'll move everything into main.
> 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.
I'll use them - or at least get inspired. Thanks !
> Oh, and if Michael doesn't invite you, to join the pkg-java team, you
> are invited to join the pkg-games team ;)
Sounds good - I'll wait until I make my first upload, and then I'll
turn it over (just for the pleasure of being the sole maintainer, if
only for a while).
Cheers,
Vincent
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