On Fri, May 08, 2009 at 10:12:48PM +0200, Guus Sliepen wrote: > On Fri, May 08, 2009 at 08:01:10PM +0100, Roger Leigh wrote: > > > > > The blobwars-data-nonfree mentioned in README.Debian never > > > > seems to have materalised? > > > > > > Gah, I seem to have forgotten to upload it :( I will do so. > > > > What happened to blobwars-data-nonfree? I saw it in NEW a few weeks > > ago, but it's not in the archive AFAICS. > > It was rejected due to missing license and/or copyright information for most > of > the music and sound contained in the non-free data set. Therefore, it cannot > be > distributed. I tried to search for this information myself, but although I > could find it for some of the files, it was only a tiny fraction. Even > upstream > does not know it. > > There are two options left: > > 1) either a blobwars-data-nonfree-installer package is created that downloads > and installs the music and sounds straight from the Parallel Realities > website, > or > > 2) new, more-or-less freely licensed music and sounds is created from scratch > or downloaded from sites such as jamendo.com and ccmixter.org. > > Personally I think option 2) is the best long term option, but I do not have > time at the moment to do that.
This does sound like a rather arduous task, and is a real shame because blobwars is awesome! Thanks for the update, Roger -- .''`. Roger Leigh : :' : Debian GNU/Linux http://people.debian.org/~rleigh/ `. `' Printing on GNU/Linux? http://gutenprint.sourceforge.net/ `- GPG Public Key: 0x25BFB848 Please GPG sign your mail. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
