the upstream web site says: --- http://www.parallelrealities.co.uk/blobAndConquer.php License
Source code is distributed under the GNU General Public License. Resources are Non Free. This game should not be added to Linux distributions or respositories. --- ok, but :-(. The Debian copyright file included with the 0.95 package version (that's in Ubuntu Intrepid, also about to release) says nothing about special dispensation to distribute it. BTW, upstream v1.0 is out. Someone should probably talk to upstream and ask if we can please distribute v1.0. It makes sense not to give people a bad impression of your game by having them see the unfinished and buggy stale version in a distro stable release, but once a game is finished, a lot more people will notice it in a distro. If it's upstream's choice to not have it packaged, maybe we can convince them otherwise. If it's because of license restrictions on their data sources, then never mind the rest of this mail. I originally found Blob Wars as a Debian package (before its final version), find bugs, and get my name in the credits for reporting them upstream. I also found blobandconquer by seeing it as a Debian or Ubuntu package, and probably wouldn't have gone to parallelrealities.co.uk to see it there. Once I did, I got the latest source and reported some bugs and minor patches I made to it. So if Stephen Sweeny can be swayed by a testimonial, there you go. I don't know how many people would just give up on a game instead of realizing that the packaged version if often stale, esp. if they're using a stable distro release, and getting the upstream source themselves. BTW, thanks for packaging such fun games, Guus. :) -- #define X(x,y) x##y Peter Cordes ; e-mail: X([EMAIL PROTECTED] , des.ca) "The gods confound the man who first found out how to distinguish the hours! Confound him, too, who in this place set up a sundial, to cut and hack my day so wretchedly into small pieces!" -- Plautus, 200 BC -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
