[Savannah-register-public] [task #8986] Submission of ClanBomber

[Sebastian Gerhardt]

Follow-up Comment #2, task #8986 (project administration):

Rene wrote:
>I'm sorry if you don't want mail delivered directly to you

I get the mail sent by Savannah anyway if anything is written in the comment
field of the tracker.
But it is preferred to write directly in the task tracker because it helps me
to keep the discussions in different task apart from each other. :)


>So the README files in each directory are not enough (they have
>the license info at the end), or is because I make it ambiguous or
>something.

In the package you have uploaded, there is no such readme in the src/pics
directory for example. 

#Even image files and sound files should contain copyright
#notices and license notices, if they can. Some formats do not
#have room for textual annotations; for these files, state the
#copyright and copying permissions in a README file in the same
#directory.
http://www.gnu.org/prep/maintain/maintain.html#Copying-from-Other-Packages

The reasoning behind this is that there are many game projects whose source
is under a free license, but this doesn't apply for the art, especially in
regard to commercial use and modification.
I assume all art of this package was meant to be licensed freely, because
otherwise it would not have been accepted by Debian main in the first place.
But we prefer to have an explicit statement about this, so that it never will
be misunderstood. 

So for example in the pics directory, there could be a README saying
something like "All graphic files in this directory are are part of ClanBomber
and licensed under GPLv2 or any later". (If this was the original author's
intent, that is)

If you don't want to put it into every directory, at least the Readme in the
main directory should make a statement about this.
"Clanbomber n Copyright xyz n All source, graphics, ... of this package are
licensed under xy, except the fonts which are under zx..."

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