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 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
