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Panthera Leo

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Why is this game only avalible for Fedora though Livna?
« on: February 25, 2008, 03:10:05 am »
Fedora, being the "open beta" for Redhat goes in the great detail with security and package submission requirements. I was just wondering if there was some hurtle that bars it from being part of the official Fedora repository, or it's just only in Livna because that's where it happens to be?

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Re: Why is this game only avalible for Fedora though Livna?
« Reply #1 on: February 25, 2008, 04:38:59 am »
You should probably ask on a Fedora forum.

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Re: Why is this game only avalible for Fedora though Livna?
« Reply #2 on: March 03, 2008, 09:43:59 am »
Ahh, think I may have found a stumbling block if not the stumbling block. There are server licences.txt files in the art directories. I glazed over those before looking at the hard code for the reason...

Quote from: The text files
Textures from http://www.mayang.com/textures/
* "License: These textures are Copyright \xa9 Mayang Murni Adnin, 2001-2006.
  They have all been taken by our own cameras or created by ourselves"
* "Use: They are free to use for all uses, whether commercial or non-commercial
  (you may incorporate them into your work with no requirement to pay us any
  licensing fee etc). It would be nice if you could credit us."
* "Sell: You may not sell any of these textures."
* "Redistribute: You may redistribute (give/send to somebody else/display on
  a web site) up to 30 of these textures together, but no more. You must credit
  this website as the original source (tell them about us)."

Textures from http://www.cgtextures.com
* "License: You may not sell or distribute any of these textures, use of these
  textures is only allowed under the following conditions:
  * Private or commercial use in 2D or 3D computer graphics and printed media.
  * Incorporation in computer games, 3D models.
  * Selling 3D models bundled with modified versions of the textures is allowed.
  * It is not allowed to sell or distribute any of these textures (either separate
    or in the form of texture packs.)"

It allow UFO:AI to do as it pleases with it, but I'm not sure it's a 100% kosher with the GPL. Not a sure deal breaker for one of Fedora's package submission requirements, by a hairs breath from one.

Anyone have a history behind this?

Edit: Just came from there, btw, nothing concrete yet, just burning the candle at both ends. :)
« Last Edit: March 03, 2008, 09:45:38 am by Panthera Leo »

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Re: Why is this game only avalible for Fedora though Livna?
« Reply #3 on: March 03, 2008, 01:52:51 pm »
we are currently replacing all those textures with gpled versions - but we could still need some help with it.

see http://phidev.org/~dino/ufo/html/textures/696b031073e74bf2cb98e5ef201d4aa3.html for more information
there are all the licenses that still need a replacement

e.g. see http://frittierte-butter.de/~phil/ufo/html/index.html to see the progress we made with replacing media