[redeclipse] 73/494: Update README.Debian

[Martin Werner]

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commit 3554355b36abfd55cf954822249fd3b3497de9c6
Author: Arand Nash <ienorand at gmail.com>
Date:   Thu Mar 10 23:05:14 2011 +0000

    Update README.Debian
    
    * Notes on license and how it affects packaging
    * Only manpage for server todo
    * the DEP5 copyright is kind of complete now
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 README.Debian | 30 ++++++++++++++++++++++--------
 1 file changed, 22 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)

diff --git a/README.Debian b/README.Debian
index b3900d5..d753b99 100644
--- a/README.Debian
+++ b/README.Debian
@@ -1,18 +1,32 @@
 redeclipse for Debian
 ---------------------
 
-debian/patches/01_makefile.patch
+debian/patches/01_makefile.patch:
  This is used simply to set a path which is guaranteed to work, the
  install process still copies from src/* because of the .install files
  used for menu items, this seems like something which could be done prettier.
 
+Notes on the license and consequent packaging oddities:
+ The Red Eclipse license only allows redistribution of all game data,
+ (including bits which otherwise are not redistributable) if the only change
+ done to the tarball is recompression "using different archival formats
+ suitable for your OS (zip/tgz/deb/dmg)"
+ Because of this, the redeclipse-data binary package includes everything
+ from the original "tarball" (svn repo, as is the case here), _including_ the
+ source code, precompiled binaries etc.
+ 
+ The redeclipse and redeclipse-server binary packages gets by under the
+ license of the source (Zlib) and enet ("MIT"/Expat). I have also created a
+ new icon (GPLv3) since converting any of the redeclipse icon bases into an
+ xpm is disallowed as per the license.
+
+ Similar to the icon using the trademark "Red Eclipse" is probably disallowed
+ unless in conjunction with the "unchanged tarball", but this is ignored for
+ now.
+
 TODO:
-* Write manpage for client and server
-* debian/copyright has inclusion of all copyright notices for content in
-  the data/ directory, the is not mention of whether copyright information about
-  the author is available. There are also a few shortcuts, e.g. left a link
-  to CC-BY as sufficient information and stripped the license text.
+* Write manpage for server
 * The ENet network library might be appropriate to split off to a separate
   package?
-* Similar to sauerbraten, the client and server may fit in contrib, wheras the
-  data is non-free.
+* Bug upstream about licensing, which may in practice not correspond to their
+  intent.

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