New release of Blobwars 1 with DFSG music and sound

[Micah Gersten]

On 02/13/2011 03:58 PM, Guus Sliepen wrote:
> Hello everyone,
>
> I'm emailing you because back in 2008, it was announced that the music and
> sound in Blobwars was non-free (or at least, lacking copyright information and
> therefore non-distributable). All of you were involved in the discussion about
> what to do, according to my email archive.
>
> Hans de Goede (from Red Hat) and I have found replacement music and sounds with
> CC-BY, CC-BY-SA, GPL and BSD licenses. We have also, in cooperation with
> Parallel Realities, set up a SourceForge project where development of Blobwars
> continues. We have just released version 1.18, with the new music and sound:
>
> http://blobwars.sourceforge.net/
>
> The music was found via Simuze.nl, a site that recently closed, but was similar
> to Jamendo.com. Music from three artists (DJ Sjors, Ambick and SinQ) has been
> selected. The artists have all been contacted, and were all very positive about
> the use of their music in Blobwars, and ensured we could use version 3.0 of the
> CC-BY and CC-BY-SA licenses for their music.
>
> The sound was taken from various other FOSS games, and in some cases generated
> from scratch by Hans. Tracking all the license information and ensuring proper
> attribution was tedious, but has been done. The in-game credits are complete,
> and I have also created a DEP-5 compliant debian/copyright file, which has all
> the information in a machine-parsable format.
>
> We believe we have fixed the copyright and distributability issues, but if you
> still find problems, let us know.
>
> Blobwars 1.18 has been tested on Linux and Windows, I invite the BSD
> maintainers to check if it still compiles on your platforms, if not let me
> know.
>
Thank you for the update, I see this is in Debian sid.  I'll look at
getting this version sync'd to Ubuntu.

Thanks,
Micah