On Tue, 20 Feb 2007 15:17:55 +0000 Sam Morris wrote: > On Wed, 2007-02-14 at 23:52 +0100, Francesco Poli wrote: > > Hi! > > > > One of the difficulties with packaging Aleph One seems to be the > > lack of DFSG-free game data. > > > > I found this set of game data for the Aleph One engine: > > Title: Excalibur: Morgana's Revenge > > License: GNU General Public License (GPL) [according to what is > > claimed on the sf.net project page] > > Project Page: http://sourceforge.net/projects/emr3/ > > > > Take into account that I didn't verify anything, hence I don't know > > if they actually make source available for the game data, if they > > actually release all the data in a GPL-compatible way, and so forth. > > But I thought I could point this project out anyway... > > > > I hope this can help. > > Thanks for the pointer.
You're welcome! :) > I remember playing EMR many years ago and I am > very happy to see that it has been released under the GPL! I do not know anything about those games, but I got the impression that the one I pointed out is a sort of new implementation (EMR3). I hope that it does not qualify as a derivative work of a pre-existent proprietary game (it would be if it qualified as a sequel or if it shared characters with the original, for instance), otherwise we must check that they obtained proper permissions to distribute the derivative work under the GNU GPL... > I guess > this means that Aleph One can go into main without me having to dust > off my copy of Anvil... ;) As I said, the emr3 project is promising, but everything should be checked and verified before feeling lucky. Moreover those DFSG-free game data (assuming they actually comply with the DFSG) must be packaged in order to let Aleph One go into main. -- http://frx.netsons.org/progs/scripts/refresh-pubring.html Need to refresh your keyring in a piecewise fashion? ..................................................... Francesco Poli . GnuPG key fpr == C979 F34B 27CE 5CD8 DC12 31B5 78F4 279B DD6D FCF4
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