[dhewm3] 01/01: Add assessment text to extra license clauses from idsoft that they are compliant with the GPL

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commit d8b2f2526ae11865b6a293ac6d63556db35b6903
Author: Tobias Frost <tobi at coldtobi.de>
Date:   Tue Aug 4 23:03:44 2015 +0200

    Add assessment text to extra license clauses from idsoft that they are compliant with the GPL
---
 debian/changelog          |  2 +-
 debian/copyright          |  4 ++-
 debian/license-assessment | 81 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 debian/rules              |  3 ++
 4 files changed, 88 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/debian/changelog b/debian/changelog
index 2aba42a..a2200a6 100644
--- a/debian/changelog
+++ b/debian/changelog
@@ -2,4 +2,4 @@ dhewm3 (0+git20150226+dfsg-1) unstable; urgency=medium
 
   * Initial release (Closes: #777373)
 
- -- Tobias Frost <tobi at debian.org>  Thu, 12 Mar 2015 11:21:47 +0100
+ -- Tobias Frost <tobi at debian.org>  Tue, 04 Aug 2015 22:51:30 +0200
diff --git a/debian/copyright b/debian/copyright
index 6b6d3d2..ffed7f4 100644
--- a/debian/copyright
+++ b/debian/copyright
@@ -11,7 +11,9 @@ Files-Excluded: neo/tools/common/PropTree/* neo/sys/win32/*
 
 Files: *
 Copyright: 1999-2011 id Software LLC, a ZeniMax Media company
-License: GPL-3-with-idsoft-restrictions
+Comment: See debian/license-assessment for an assessembent of the additional
+ clauses in respect to GPL compatiblity.
+License: GPL-3-with-idsoft-extra-terms
  Doom 3 Source Code is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
  it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
  the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
diff --git a/debian/license-assessment b/debian/license-assessment
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..b7a0ffe
--- /dev/null
+++ b/debian/license-assessment
@@ -0,0 +1,81 @@
+GPL-3-with-idsoft-extra-terms
+
+Summary:
+Id software added several terms to the software license, ammending the GPL-3.
+
+This is NOT in a contradiction to the GPL-3 §10, as GPL-3 §7 explictly allows
+to override the paragraphs idsoft does.
+
+This was also discussed on debian-legal with the same conclusion:
+The extra terms are comptabile with the GPL. (Doom3BFG has the same license)
+See https://lists.debian.org/debian-legal/2014/10/msg00003.html
+
+Analysis after initial reject:
+
+GPL V3 in §10:
+You may not impose any further restrictions on the exercise of the> > rights
+granted or affirmed under this License.
+
+However, §7, "Addtional Terms" has an exception to this: (I'll quote
+only the important sections here):
+
+  7. Additional Terms.
+  (...)
+  Notwithstanding any other provision of this License, for material you
+  add to a covered work, you may (if authorized by the copyright
+  holders of that material) supplement the terms of this License with
+  terms:
+
+    a) Disclaiming warranty or limiting liability differently from the
+    terms of sections 15 and 16 of this License; or
+    b) Requiring preservation of specified reasonable legal notices or
+    author attributions in that material or in the Appropriate Legal
+    Notices displayed by works containing it; or
+    c) Prohibiting misrepresentation of the origin of that material,
+    or requiring that modified versions of such material be marked in
+    reasonable ways as different from the original version; or
+    d) Limiting the use for publicity purposes of names of licensors or
+    authors of the material; or
+    e) Declining to grant rights under trademark law for use of some
+    trade names, trademarks, or service marks; or
+    f) Requiring indemnification of licensors and authors of that
+    material by anyone who conveys the material (or modified versions
+    of it) with contractual assumptions of liability to the recipient,
+    for any liability that these contractual assumptions directly
+    impose on those licensors and authors.
+
+  All other non-permissive additional terms are considered “further
+  restrictions” within the meaning of section 10.
+
+The last quoted sentence makes it clear that other changes except the
+ones from the list in §7 are "further restrictions" and implicitly says
+"those in the list are not". For now a) is the important one.
+
+idsoft utilizes this exceptions and overrides §15 and §16 with their
+own versions, but IMHO above shows that they are free to do that.
+
+There is also nothing in that point a) that disallow to say "I
+completely manage §15 and §16 myself, thus the original ones are void",
+so saying "Replacement of Section 15.  Section 15 of the GPL shall be
+deleted in its entirety and replaced with the following:" and
+accordingly "2. Replacement of Section 16.  Section 16 of the GPL shall
+be deleted in its entirety and replaced with the following:"
+is OK too.
+
+Looking at idsofts §15, this is a just a rephrased version of the GPL
+15, with nothing special in it. [1]
+
+§16 idsoft is also not really fancy rewrite of GPL §16. [2]
+
+There is also a third point in idsofts' additional terms: [3]
+3. LEGAL NOTICES; NO TRADEMARK LICENSE; ORIGIN.
+but that is also covered but the exceptions in the GPL,
+bullet poinst b), c), d) and e)
+
+And finally, point 4 in idsofts addendum, INDEMNIFICATION
+is covered by bullet point f). [4]
+
+Bottom line, I'm sure that this license is perfectly fine and distributeable.
+
+-- 
+tobi
diff --git a/debian/rules b/debian/rules
index 49c976c..c5f6587 100755
--- a/debian/rules
+++ b/debian/rules
@@ -14,6 +14,9 @@ override_dh_auto_configure:
 	-DCMAKE_INSTALL_BINDIR="games" -DCMAKE_INSTALL_DATADIR="share/games" \
 	-DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Debian
 
+override_dh_installdocs:
+	dh_installdocs -A debian/license-assessment
+
 # For get-orig-source
 UURL =  https://github.com/dhewm/dhewm3.git
 PKD   = $(abspath $(dir $(MAKEFILE_LIST)))

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