[quake3] Legal stuff

[Ludwig Nussel]

On Wednesday 18 January 2006 09:17, Zachary J. Slater wrote:
> On Jan 17, 2006, at 11:17 PM, Bruno Kleinert wrote:
> >
> > I would appreciate it very much if one would take time to clean up the
> > license issues. ATM that's the only reason why I couldn't get Ubuntu
> > dapper packages through the Ubuntu reviewing process.
> >
> 
> While I realize that debian might have problems with licenses,
> we do not have a lawyer, nor can we afford one. Anyone
> who expects open-source projects to be magically vetted by the
> lawyer-faeries is bound to be sorely disappointed.
> 
> Not that I don't want to see icculus.org/quake3 running on every  
> distribution,
> just that we can't ever be 100% sure of any legal status without  
> lawyers.
> 
> I'd like to see some kind of process appear for doing this (making sure
> licenses are complied with), but that would
> be a costly task.

Our build system does some automatic grepping to find offending
licenses. It found that the included jpeg code has an advertising
clause. lcc has some free of charge constraints.

cu
Ludwig

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