Re: [Savannah-hackers] submission of pyDDR - savannah.nongnu.org

[Loic Dachary]

        Hi,

        The license you selected is Expat but the LICENSE file of the 
distribution contains:

Copyright (c) 2001 Brendan Becker

Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a 
copy of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), 
to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation 
the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, 
and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the 
Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:

The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in 
all copies or substantial portions of the Software.

THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR 
IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, 
FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL 
THE AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER 
LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING 
FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER 
DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE.


        which is not the Expat license (also refered to as the MIT license).
Could you submit your project again and clarify this issue ? If you want
your license to be listed as compatible with the GNU GPL, please write
to address@hidden You would probably be better off to chose the actual
Expat license, but that's your decision really ;-)

        Cheers,

address@hidden writes:
 > A package was submitted to savannah.nongnu.org
 > This mail was sent to address@hidden, address@hidden
 > 
 > 
 > Brendan Becker <address@hidden> described the package as follows:
 > License: expat
 > Other License: until version 0.5.5, pyDDR was provided under an almost-expat 
 > license, but not quite. this license is still included for historical 
 > purposes, but is not the active license. pyDDR now contains a license that 
 > specifies which license it is and a verbatim copy of the license.
 > Package: pyDDR
 > System name: pyddr
 > Type: non-GNU
 > 
 > Description:
 > PyDDR is a clone of a popular dance simulator called Dance Dance Revolution. 
 > The game logic is written completely in Python with Pygame\\\\\\\'s bindings 
 > to C/SDL for multimedia.Dance Dance Revolution, or DDR for short, is a game 
 > where the player uses a dancing mat and dances on set patterns of arrows 
 > (\\\\\\\"dance steps\\\\\\\") in time to music that the game plays. 
 > Depending on how in-time the player is with the steps s/he\\\\\\\'s supposed 
 > to step on, a letter grade is given at the end of the song. PyDDR aims to do 
 > everything that DDR is capable of doing while adding new features, visual 
 > effects, and interface options. One of the pluses of using pyDDR over 
 > regular DDR is that one can create his/her own music and then write dance 
 > steps to the song, or synchronise steps to already-existing music.Currently, 
 > some of these features are implemented, and the game is playable. However, 
 > in the future, pyDDR will be a full-featured dancing simulator, also 
 > supporting other dancing games such as ParaParaParadise, which allows you to 
 > wave your hands over sensors instead of stepping on floor panels. 
 > Two-or-more player play and netplay are planned, as well as a possible 
 > future release with steps timed to the author\\\\\\\'s own music.The project 
 > is already in development and you can download the latest release from 
 > http://clickass.org/~tgz/pyddr/download.html
 > 
 > Other Software Required:
 > PyDDR needs, at minimum, Python 2.1 and Pygame 1.4.9, which in turn depends 
 > on Numeric 21.0 (preferred version), SDL 1.2.4, SMPEG, SDL_mixer 1.2.4, 
 > SDL_image, freetype2, and SDL_ttf. The SDL libs are best installed in the 
 > order listed.
 > 
 > Other Comments:
 > PyDDR is actively developed, supported, and discussed. You can contact a 
 > live human being in #pyDDR on irc.freenode.net or send an email to tgz AT 
 > orotech DOT net for information or help.
 > 

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