Thanks for the help guys! I think I got it now

Mitch

On Tue, Jun 12, 2018 at 6:17 PM, Stuart Henderson <s...@spacehopper.org> wrote:
> On 2018/06/12 23:10, mitchell wodach wrote:
>> On 6/12/18, Stuart Henderson <s...@spacehopper.org> wrote:
>> > On 2018/06/12 21:26, mitchell wodach wrote:
>> >> On 6/9/18, Marc Espie <es...@nerim.net> wrote:
>> >> > On Fri, Jun 08, 2018 at 06:15:01PM -0500, mitchell wodach wrote:
>> >> >> Hi
>> >> >>
>> >> >> I'm working on porting Freedink. I have the data separate form the
>> >> >> game
>> >> >> code.
>> >> >> The data has multiple licenses. so for PERMIT_PACKAGE  in Makefile I
>> >> >> should
>> >> >> pick the most restrictive  license?
>> >> >
>> >> > What you're saying is highly ambiguous: do the individual data files
>> >> > have
>> >> > separate licences ? In that case, the most restrictive is appropriate.
>> >> >
>> >> > Or do you see several licences that apply to all files ? In that case,
>> >> > this means the data can be redistributed under any of the licences. In
>> >> > that
>> >> > case, the least restrictive is appropriate.
>> >> >
>> >>
>> >> I do apologize for the ambiguity of my question. not the greatest
>> >> question asker.
>> >> I took a look in the upstream source tarball for the data. the files
>> >> do have their own separate licences. most of the data is  licensed
>> >> under zlib. The files that are not under the zlib license are
>> >> specified in a separate readme file and have a folder with all the
>> >> license texts. so the first case is the one I need to pick. I guess I
>> >> have some reading todo lol!
>> >>
>> >> Thanks,
>> >> Mitch
>> >>
>> >
>> > Got a link to the actual distfiles you're looking at?
>> >
>> >
>> yes I do have a link
>>
>> https://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/freedink/freedink-data-1.08.20170409.tar.gz
>>
>> The files I looked at are README.txt and README-REPLACEMENTS.txt and
>> the directory with license texts in it is called licenses/
>
> I would write "various free-distribution licenses; see README.txt and
> README-REPLACEMENTS.txt in the distribution".
>
> (and the main game code is "GPLv3 or newer" so write that as "GPLv3+").
>

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