Debian Bug report logs - #377621
RM: ghostcore -- RoQA; orphaned, copyright problems

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Message #5 received at submit@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Jeroen van Wolffelaar <jeroen@wolffelaar.nl>

To: Debian Bug Tracking System <submit@bugs.debian.org>

Subject: O: ghostcore -- Core database for lambdamoo

Date: Mon, 10 Jul 2006 13:36:05 +0200

Package: wnpp
Severity: normal

The current maintainer of ghostcore, Jonathan Walther <krooger@debian.org>,
is no longer active.  Therefore, I orphan this package
now.  If you want to be the new maintainer, please take it -- see
http://www.debian.org/devel/wnpp/index.html#howto-o for detailed
instructions how to adopt a package properly.

Some information about this package:

Package: ghostcore
Binary: ghostcore
Version: 0.9.8-6
Priority: optional
Section: net
Maintainer: Jonathan Walther <krooger@debian.org>
Build-Depends: debhelper (>= 5)
Architecture: all
Standards-Version: 3.6.2.2
Format: 1.0
Directory: pool/main/g/ghostcore
Files: bc6f1d63493277bce46c9cfdb885edea 689 ghostcore_0.9.8-6.dsc
 86c4a96f79077076d332af24cb9f9ed1 707517 ghostcore_0.9.8.orig.tar.gz
 6fdcbecbcd1d1c31eca02dfb773edb29 2121 ghostcore_0.9.8-6.diff.gz

Package: ghostcore
Priority: optional
Section: net
Installed-Size: 2492
Maintainer: Jonathan Walther <krooger@debian.org>
Architecture: all
Version: 0.9.8-6
Provides: lambdamoo-core
Recommends: lambdamoo | lambdamoo-server
Suggests: lambdamoo-docs
Filename: pool/main/g/ghostcore/ghostcore_0.9.8-6_all.deb
Size: 706366
MD5sum: 82bc59696eeb25981649b9f59705ce29
SHA1: 53eb56b0dd1d09ce834944f4641187333e2cb40d
SHA256: 26e99b1730d8b112f79e1ec31eeb02a3c53db5a7f6f4f7d4b3376195a72fcae5
Description: Core database for lambdamoo
 A core database for use with the Lambdamoo server.  This core is derived from
 the popular GhostWheel role playing game (RPG) database.  If you want to build
 your own RPG, this is a good place to start.
Tag: game::mud, role::content:data, use::gameplaying, works-with::db

Message #10 received at 377621@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Nathanael Nerode <neroden@fastmail.fm>

To: control@bugs.debian.org, 377623@bugs.debian.org, 377622@bugs.debian.org, 377620@bugs.debian.org, 377621@bugs.debian.org

Cc: 377624@bugs.debian.org

Subject: Please remove lambdamoo core dbs

Date: Mon, 18 Sep 2006 13:48:35 -0400

retitle 377621 RM: ghostcore -- RoQA; orphaned, copyright problems
retitle 377620 RM: encore -- RoQA; orphaned, copyright problems
retitle 377622 RM: jhcore -- RoQA; orphaned, copyright problems
retitle 377623 RM: lambdacore -- RoQA; orphaned, copyright problems
reassign 377620 ftp.debian.org
reassign 377621 ftp.debian.org
reassign 377622 ftp.debian.org
reassign 377623 ftp.debian.org
thanks

LambdaCore has copyright problems.  It was written by a large number of
pseudonymous people, many of whom could probably not be identified even
by their pseudonyms now.  Most of them never granted explicit
licenses for the use of their work.  And most of it was done after 1988,
when copyright became automatic in the US.

Unfortunately, jhcore, encore, and ghostcore are all based on lambdacore,
and inherit the same copyright problems.

Presumably since LambdaCore has been released for years, the denizens of LambdaMOO
who wrote it are mostly OK with it.  But they didn't actually grant any licenses,
and we don't actually know whether they are all OK with it.

Accordingly, I request that this mass of orphaned packages be removed.

(The lambdamoo server is still usable with the 'minimal' core database, and the
server has had its copyright and licensing handled carefully, so it's OK.  However,
anyone choosing to adopt it should be warned about the core databases.)

-- 
Nathanael Nerode  <neroden@fastmail.fm>

Theocracy, fascism, or absolute monarchy -- I don't care which it is, I don't like it.

Message #19 received at 377621-close@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Debian Archive Maintenance <ftpmaster@ftp-master.debian.org>

To: 377621-close@bugs.debian.org

Cc: encore@packages.debian.org, encore@packages.qa.debian.org, ghostcore@packages.debian.org, ghostcore@packages.qa.debian.org, jhcore@packages.debian.org, jhcore@packages.qa.debian.org

Subject: Bug#377621: fixed

Date: Sat, 23 Dec 2006 12:01:30 +0000

We believe that the bug you reported is now fixed; the following
package(s) have been removed from unstable:

    encore |    4.0.1-3 | source, all
 ghostcore |    0.9.8-7 | source, all
    jhcore | 20050204-2 | source, all

Note that the package(s) have simply been removed from the tag
database and may (or may not) still be in the pool; this is not a bug.
The package(s) will be physically removed automatically when no suite
references them (and in the case of source, when no binary references
it).  Please also remember that the changes have been done on the
master archive (ftp-master.debian.org) and will not propagate to any
mirrors (ftp.debian.org included) until the next cron.daily run at the
earliest.

Packages are never removed from testing by hand.  Testing tracks
unstable and will automatically remove packages which were removed
from unstable when removing them from testing causes no dependency
problems.

Bugs which have been reported against this package are not automatically
removed from the Bug Tracking System.  Please check all open bugs and
close them or re-assign them to another package if the removed package
was superseded by another one.

Thank you for reporting the bug, which will now be closed.  If you
have further comments please address them to 377621@bugs.debian.org.

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