Sponsor request: descent (d1x)

Hans de Goede j.w.r.degoede at hhs.nl
Fri Apr 29 06:29:51 UTC 2005



Tom 'spot' Callaway wrote:
> On Thu, 2005-04-28 at 21:43 +0200, Hans de Goede wrote:
> 
>>Hi,
>>
>>Anyone agrees that descent (the 3d shoot em up) is great and belongs in 
>>extras (iow wants to sponsor me)?
>>
>>There has been a free (opensource) release of the descent engine and 
>>this has been ported to linux and enhanced under the name of d1x:
>>http://d1x.warpcore.org
>>
>>I know it needs shareware datafiles, this has been looked at by legal as 
>>requested by me and according to: 
>>http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/PackagingGuidelines
>>shareware datafiles are ok as long as they are freely redistributable.
>>Atleast I assume the text about shareware was added because of my 
>>request to look into this, a reply to my original mail pointing at this 
>>would have been nice.
> 
> 
> Yes, this was a result of that thread, sorry for not replying to your
> original mail. It was an oversight on my part.
> 
> Post a link to the SRPM, and I'll review it. Also, you'll need to make
> sure that the distribution permissions for the shareware datafiles are
> included within the SRPM in writing.
> 


I'm still confused about the new package process according to the wiki 
the steps are:
1) get a sponsor -> done
2) import to CVS
3) request review

So why do you request a link, shouldn't I import it into CVS?

Regards,

Hans




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