Bug 505778 – games-strategy/savage-bin wrong LICENSE

• Status: RESOLVED FIXED
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description Alexander Berntsen (RETIRED) 2014-03-25 15:05:27 UTC]

Given that you need to sign up and make an account, I assume this is EULA.

[Comment 1 Ulrich Müller 2014-04-03 07:08:16 UTC]

This is package.masked since 2011 for security reasons.
@Games team, do you want to keep this package?

[Comment 2 Julian Ospald 2014-04-03 09:57:19 UTC]

A lot of proprietary games have a lot of security issues. The mask is rather a reminder for the user. Most users who want to play these masked packages don't care or already know. There is almost never a viable alternative, so I don't think any of this should be treecleaned, because it is still of interest for the user.

[Comment 3 Ulrich Müller 2014-04-03 10:33:35 UTC]

Thanks for the clarification. I've no intend to treeclean a package that is still useful.

However, if it was scheduled for removal anyway because of the security issue, then we could save the effort of sorting out the license issue. Therefore my question.

[Comment 4 Julian Ospald 2014-04-04 10:58:00 UTC]

Created attachment 374244 [details]
licenses.txt

there is no EULA afais, it's freeware plus this file

[Comment 5 Julian Ospald 2014-04-04 10:59:41 UTC]

I think this is outdated anyway and continued as Savage XR

http://www.newerth.com/?id=downloads&op=displayDownload&category=1&file=xr_setup-1.0-cl_lin_prod.bin

but I'm not sure if servers still run this version or if the client is compatible with XR servers

[Comment 6 Ulrich Müller 2014-04-04 18:29:48 UTC]

(In reply to Julian Ospald (hasufell) from comment #4)
> Created attachment 374244 [details]
> licenses.txt
> 
> there is no EULA afais, it's freeware plus this file

Looks like these are only the licenses of the bundled libs, but not of the game itself?

[Comment 7 Ulrich Müller 2014-04-26 09:58:17 UTC]

(In reply to Ulrich Müller from comment #6)
> (In reply to Julian Ospald (hasufell) from comment #4)
> > Created attachment 374244 [details]
> > licenses.txt
> > 
> > there is no EULA afais, it's freeware plus this file
> 
> Looks like these are only the licenses of the bundled libs, but not of the
> game itself?

There is definitely no license for the game itself. According to http://www.newerth.com/ it is "100% Freeware", whatever that means. 

LICENSE changed to all-rights-reserved. Mirror restriction was already in place.

[Comment 8 Julian Ospald 2014-04-26 14:21:34 UTC]

(In reply to Ulrich Müller from comment #7)
> (In reply to Ulrich Müller from comment #6)
> > (In reply to Julian Ospald (hasufell) from comment #4)
> > > Created attachment 374244 [details]
> > > licenses.txt
> > > 
> > > there is no EULA afais, it's freeware plus this file
> > 
> > Looks like these are only the licenses of the bundled libs, but not of the
> > game itself?
> 
> There is definitely no license for the game itself. According to
> http://www.newerth.com/ it is "100% Freeware", whatever that means. 
> 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freeware

[Comment 9 Ulrich Müller 2014-04-26 14:40:26 UTC]

(In reply to Julian Ospald (hasufell) from comment #8)
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freeware

Yeah, but the concept isn't connected with any licensing model. "Freeware" without specification of distribution terms doesn't give the user any (additional) rights.