[Bug-freedink] Re: Some FreeDink news and a question

[Sylvain Beucler]

Hi Seth,

This appears to be good
(https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=459908#c22).

Thanks for the quick reply :)

-- 
Sylvain


On Mon, Sep 22, 2008 at 08:17:51AM +0900, Seth A. Robinson wrote:
>>> Could you clarify if the Dink 32x32 icon in the dink107_source.zip
>>> archive is covered by the free license from the included license.txt?
>
> Hi Sylvain,
>
> Looking good!
>
> Yes this icon should be covered by that license, I surely don't want a 32X32 
> bmp to hold up the release so let me know if I need to add it to the zlib 
> graphic pack or such to make it more legally kosher.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Seth A. Robinson
> www.rtsoft.com
>
>
>
> Sylvain Beucler wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> Here's some news from the Dink packaging front, and a question about
>> the Dink icon :)
>>
>>
>> So, following your release of the Dink scripts and graphics under the
>> zlib license, I contacted several GNU/Linux distributions.  My overall
>> impression is that new packages take long to get reviewed and
>> approved, with lots of time spent on distro-specific policies.
>> However, there's already some progress:
>>
>> - Stefan Dirsch, who already knew Dink, was extremely efficient in
>>   accepting my packages in OpenSUSE, and it's now available from the
>>   Games repository.
>>
>> - ArchLinux packages the engine, but not the front-end or the data
>>   (Petteri Tolonen is working on it).
>>
>> - I submitted packages for Debian and Fedora in their respective
>>   format/framework.  The review process involves fixing lots of
>>   details, hopefully this should be finished within a few weeks.
>>
>> - I recently submitted packages to Gentoo (in yet another format ;))
>>   and I'm expecting a reply soon.
>>
>> - I started adding replacements for the sounds, see
>>   http://www.freedink.org/doc/sounds/
>>   I had some fun recoding Claude Debussy's Rêverie and Franz Schubert
>>   Serenade D957 to MIDI from the public scores, using Rosegarden :)
>>
>>
>> And I have a question:
>>
>> It's about a legal clarification for the Dink icon, dink.ico.
>>
>> The Fedora reviewer checked the different licenses in use and saw the
>> Dink 32x32 icon came from the official Dink source (as part of the
>> VC++ project resources).
>>
>> The license.txt mentions that the "Dink Smallwood Media" is not part
>> of the source release and not covered by the Dink source license.  So
>> he concluded that the Dink icon was maybe not covered by the license.
>> This looks bit far-fetched, but well if that's the only problem I
>> guess everything else is cristal-clear :)
>>
>>
>> Could you clarify if the Dink 32x32 icon in the dink107_source.zip
>> archive is covered by the free license from the included license.txt?
>>
>>
>> To make things easy, I added 'address@hidden', a public
>> mailing-list, in carbon copy.  You can reply to the list and I can
>> show your answer to the Fedora reviewer.
>>
>> You can answer yes or no, I designed another quick icon in case
>> there's a problem.
>>
>>
>> Thanks!
>>
>>