[Savannah-hackers] submission of foocube - savannah.nongnu.org

[Alaska Subedi]

Hi,

I am reviewing your project for inclusion in Savannah.


> A package was submitted to savannah.nongnu.org
> This mail was sent to address@hidden,
> address@hidden
>
>
> Bruno Kleinert <address@hidden> described the package as
> follows:
> License: zlib
> Other License:
> Package: foocube
> System name: foocube
> Type: non-GNU
>
> Description:
> "foocube" is a 3d first-person multiplayer game, forked from the game
> "Cube" by
> Wouter van Oortmerssen. foocube is licensed under the zlib license.
> Apart from
> the original cube, i want to integrate un*x specific enhancements, a
> source
> cleanup for newer versions of the gcc. a port for win32 will follow.
> the main
> target is to make foocube follow the debian free software guidelines,
> and to
> make it easy for linux distributions to  build packages.
>
>
> foocube is written in c/c++ and uses opengl through the SDL- and
> SDL-image
> library for graphics acceleration. Sound is handled by the SDL mixer
> library.
> at the moment, the sources are testet with linux only.
>
>
> a source tarball can be found here:
>
>
> 
http://wwwcip.informatik.uni-erlangen.de/~sibrklei/foocube/src/foocube-20040914.tar.bz2
>
>
> Other Software Required:
> opengl libraries
> libsdl
> libsdl-image
> libsdl-mixer
>
> Other Comments:


"Linux" is just a kernel of a more complex system that we like to refer
to as GNU/Linux, to emphasize the ideals of the Free Software movement.

Would you mind changing references to Linux as an OS to GNU/Linux?

For more information, see http://www.gnu.org/gnu/linux-and-gnu.html.

The additional clause in the license of Cube is incompatible with GNU
GPL. It states:

        additional clause specific to Cube:

        4. Source versions may not be "relicensed" under a different
        license without my explicitly written permission.

We only host projects with licenses that are compatible with GNU GPL.
The standard zlib is compatible with GPL, but this is not. Unless
the original author of Cube rereleases it under the standard
zlib -- this in order to permit a fork to be hosted at Savannah -- we 
cannot approve this project.

Regards,

Alaska Subedi