Bug#491597: ITP: magicmaze -- rescue the maiden while avoiding the monsters
Hi Kent,
Firstly, let me say thanks for the great game! I had a lot of fun when
I first discovered it -- even before I learned that it had joystick
support :)
On Mon, Jul 21, 2008 at 06:29:00PM +0200, Kent Dahl wrote:
> sø., 20.07.2008 kl. 15.27 -0400, skrev Joe Nahmias:
> > * License : "FREEWARE"
>
> This is a throwback to the old 1.2x versions done in Turbo Pascal. The
> Ruby/SDL port is supposed to be Ruby/GPL dual-licensed, same as Ruby.
> I'll update in the next release and include the GPL license text file.
That would be fantastic. Note that just including a License.txt or
similar isn't 100% sufficient. It's best to have a short blurb at the
top of each class (or at least the mm.rb script) saying that you're the
author, with the copyright info and what license you're releasing it
under -- referring to the license.txt.
If you could possibly do this right away, that would be wonderful as
we're just about to go into a freeze for the upcoming version of Debian
(lenny) and I'd like to see if I can get magicmaze in under the wire.
> > Note: The license needs clarification and the font included likely needs
> > to be substituted.
>
> Not sure what the content redistribution requirements are for inclusion
> in Debian. The "Fraktur Modern" comes with a "license description"
> of-sorts which indicates that it is freely distributable:
> http://www.squaregear.net/fonts/fraktmod.shtml
> I also noted that it asks for the .TXT file to accompany unaltered, so
> I'll make sure it is included as well in next MM drop.
>
> If the font isn't, and can't be made, compatible with Debian
> redistribution terms, what is the best alternative? Introduce dependancy
> on package providing one of the fonts in /usr/share/fonts/truetype/ ?
I took a look at the font situation. The font license only permits
non-commercial distribution which is incompatible with the Debian Free
Software Guidelines [0] (which is part of Debian's social contract).
So, I'm looking for a substitute -- preferably one that is already in
Debian :) Right now, for the short-term, the best candidate is the
Isabella font [1] which is already packaged and in Debian. I would just
have the magicmaze package depend on that package and patch mm to use
that font instead.
Going forward, I'd like to use the yfrak font [2] which is available in
Type-1 format in the texlive-fonts-extra package. It doesn't seem very
difficult to convert it to TTF, but I need to read up on fontforge in
order to do it properly.
Please let me know what you think and if you'd be able to make a quick
release with the license update sometime in the next few days.
Thanks again for the great game,
--Joe
[0] http://www.debian.org/social_contract#guidelines
[1] http://pkg-fonts.alioth.debian.org/review/pkg-ttf-isabella.html
[2] http://fonts.debian.net/samples/yfrak-regular.ttf.jpg
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