Just noticed the request for this. I'm one of the lead developers on the
project.
As Andrew pointed out, we are currently breaking the GPL. I only realised
this a few days ago when I was doing my usually 'scummvm' google search
and noticed another message from him on debian-devel pointing this out.
We've contacted the maintainer of the offending file (fmopl.c/fmopl.h,
which was taken from MAME) and asked if he can grant us permission to use
the file licensed as GPL.
If we do not get a positive reply by the time 0.2.0 is official released,
in a week or so we hope, we will rewrite the code or find a GPLed
replacement. So either way, the official 0.2.0 release will be properly
GPLed, and we would in fact love to see the package officially in Debian.
Regards,
James 'Ender' Brown | http://scummvm.sourceforge.net/
Developer, ScummVM | E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Wed, 17 Apr 2002, Andrew Suffield wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 17, 2002 at 01:45:19PM +0200, Andreas Tille wrote:
> > * Package name : scummvm
> > Version : 0.2.0
> > Upstream Author : Ludvig Strigeus - Lead Programmer, Project Admin
> > and others - they provide only HTML mail formular
> > for SPAM reasons
> > * URL : http://scummvm.sourceforge.net/
> > * License : GPL
> > Description : free implementation of LucasArts S.C.U.M.M.
>
> Unfortunately it may not be quite so free. I haven't checked it in
> detail, but I'm told the only decent sound support is of dubious
> license status.
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| of anything claming to be good news - because
| its probably a virus. - Salmon Days
Ender |
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