transcend for Debian -------------------- Mail from "Jason Rohrer" regarding the program's license (GPL): Thu, 13 Oct 2005 10:19:53 -0400 Hey, thanks for working on this. I use the same makefile templates for all of my projects. The __ppc__ flag is used by some crypto code that is in other projects. That flag is *not* necessary for Transcend (so feel free to remove it). I generally do not include a copy of the GPL with my software. That's just the way I do things... maybe I should change that. Some people also include a copy (or portion) of the GPL at the top of each and every source file. As a programmer, I feel that this wastes screen space, since I constantly have to scroll past it every time I look at the code. What kind of distribution are you making? If it is a binary distribution (like a binary .deb), then you don't need a license file, right? Maybe you need one for a source distribution. You have my permission to add a copy of the GPL, or a readme that mentions the GPL, in whatever distribution you create. Thanks again for working on a package. Please let me know how it turns out. Jason On Wed, 12 Oct 2005 13:37:25 +0200 (CEST) Miriam Ruiz wrote: > I've found at http://transcend.sourceforge.net/ the game Transcend, which I > find to be really nice and innovative. I'm building a package for the Debian > system out of it, but I have a couple of doubts. > > In first place, there are different makefiles for Linux X86 and Linux PPC. The > only difference between them seems to be -D__ppc__ in PLATFORM_COMPILE_FLAGS, > What does it mean? Is it really necessary? > > On the other hand, even when at the web page is stated that the program is to > be distributed unger the GNU GPL License, that is not clearly said inside the > source tar.gz file. It would be nice that there was a notice in a readme file > saying clearly that all the files of the program, source files and level data, > are distributed under the GPL License, or something like that, and to include > a copy of the license in the tar.gz file too. Would that be possible? > > Thanks in advance, and greetings, > Miry -- Miriam Ruiz , Wed, 12 Oct 2005 01:58:59 +0200