This package was debianized by Miriam Ruiz on Tue, 23 Oct 2007 08:52:00 +0000. Upstream Author: Linley Henzell Copyright: Copyright (C) 2006-2007 Linley Henzell License: This package is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version. This package is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details. You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this package; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin St, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301 USA On Debian systems, the complete text of version 2 of the GNU General Public License can be found in `/usr/share/common-licenses/GPL-2'. The Debian packaging is Copyright (C) 2007, Miriam Ruiz and is licensed under the GPL, see above. Mail exchange with the author of the program regarding the license: from: Miriam Ruiz to: l_henzell@yahoo.com.au date: 10-oct-2007 16:12 topic: Question about the license of your games Hi! :) I'm interested in packaging your games "Garden of Coloured Lights" and "Excellent Bifurcation" for Debian and Ubuntu, two of the major Linux distributions. For ""Excellent Bifurcation" I don't have the source code, but I've read that you want to release it. For "Garden of Coloured Lights", even though I have the source code, the license itself is quite fuzzy. Would it be possible that you released a version under the GPL or some other free software license? Thanks in advance, Miry from: Linley Henzell to: Miriam Ruiz date: 14-oct-2007 8:08 topic: Re: Question about the license of your games Hi there! Thanks for offering to package my games! I appreciate it. I'd be more than happy to release EB under the GPL. I don't have a home internet connection at the moment, but the next time I'm at the Internet cafe I'll email you a copy of the source. The only change I'll need to make is removing the sponsors' banners at the start, because of course I can't use them in a GPL program. Since the competition I entered GoCL in is still going, I'd prefer to wait a bit before releasing a version without the sponsors' banners (doing so isn't against the rules but it would be nice not to). I'd be happy for the game to be packaged under its current fuzzy licence, but if that's not good enough (and I know that Linux people are very careful about getting licences right, so I imagine it probably isn't) I'll email you GPL source when the competition is over if that's okay. Thanks! Linley from: Miriam Ruiz to: Linley Henzell date: 15-oct-2007 0:48 topic: Re: Question about the license of your games Thanks a lot for your answer, of course I can wait until you consider it's the best moment to release it. It would certainly be the best to have it under the GPL or any other free license, otherwise it'll have to go to non-free and, well, in general it would be much worse. Good luck in the competition, I'm really looking forward to packaging it after it's finished. Thanks a lot!! Greetings, Miry from: Linley Henzell to: Miriam Ruiz date: 16-oct-2007 9:55 topic: Re: Question about the license of your games Cool. I'll send the Garden source through in a few weeks. Here's the source to Excellent Bifurcation. I've modified it so it no longer needs the banners (which are in splash.bmp in the gfx directory - splash.bmp can be deleted). It's just source, so you'll need all of the other files from the windows binary zip. I haven't put a licence.txt file in there but I'm sure you have a copy of the GPL laying around :) GPL version 2 with the 'or later version' wording would be best, I think. The source is not exactly a model of elegance, but hopefully it won't need any changes to be able to compile on Linux. Let me know if you have any problems. And thanks again for doing this - it's good to see my games on as many platforms as possible! Bye, Linley from: Miriam Ruiz to: Linley Henzell date: 22-oct-2007 19:57 topic: Re: Question about the license of your games Hi! :) I've made a temporary initial release of the tarball I plan to use for building the package ( http://users.alioth.debian.org/~baby-guest/tmp/excellent-bifurcation-0.0.20071015.tgz ) . Please have a look at it and tell me if it's correct. I assume from your previous mail that both the source code and the game data (graphics and sound) have been made by you and released under the GPL 2 or later license. Please correct me if it's not like that or if someone else has the copyright over the sounds or graphics. Greetings and lots of thanks!! Miry from: Linley Henzell to: Miriam Ruiz date: 23-oct-2007 10:13 topic: Re: Question about the license of your games Hi there, Thanks for the archive. I'm at the library at the moment and I probably won't have a chance to look at it and get back to you for a few days. You're entirely welcome to release it as it is, though :) Yes, I have the copyright to all of the code, sounds and graphics (and everything else relevant) and I'm happy for it to be released under the GPL v2 or later. The competition is supposed to finish judging by the end of the week, so I'll have the GPL version of Garden of Coloured Lights to you soon. Bye! Linley