Hi Stephan,

I'm still in the process of changing the file "spew.c" that contained this notice:

<<
static char *cpr[]={
"  Copyright 1987 Greg Smith",
"  Permission is granted to freely use and distribute this software",
"provided this notice is left attached and no monetary gain is made."
};

>>

I think it makes it non-GPL compatible, perhasp it could be I talk to Ed to release it in savannah without this file and I later change it.

Hi Juan Manuel,

let's start with your question regarding re-licensing code: Yes, basically code can be re-licensed. To be completly sure of that being alright you should however ask the copyright holders to do that on their own and publish the code somewhere. This would mean you are on the safe-side with such things.


Next point, you set the project type to 'Official GNU Software'.
Please note that this is not the GNU Evaluation. This is the Savannah evaluation, to check whether your project complies with the Savannah hosting rules (a subset of the GNU Evaluation policies), and get a place to host your project. If you are approved at Savannah and want to be part of GNU, then we usually approve your project as non-GNU and forward your submission to the GNU Eval team.


I've also had a quick look at the source-code already and right now most critical things look alright. Please let me know once you've finished rewriting the code in question and I'll have another look at it.


Regards,

Stephan

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Full Name:
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  conquer

System Group Name:
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  conquer

Type:
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  Official GNU software

License:
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  GNU General Public License V2 or later

Description:
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  Conquer is a middle earth multi-player computer game in which each
player is the leader of a nation, composed of people (humans, orcs,
elves, dwarves), resources, and land.  Several neat features are
supported, chiefly non player countries and magic powers.

Originally written by Edward M Barlow and posted in USENET at
comp.sources.games around 1987 and 1988

Original Source code:
http://vejeta.no-ip.org/conquerv4/

-- Goals
Written in C, and based in curses, the goal is to adapt it to GNU and
compatible distributions.

Enhace it technically with better configuration support, and playability,
and future documentation being migrated to texinfo.

Publish it as Free Software and under GPL v2 or later conditions, and
be hosted in savannah after relicensing.


Other Comments:
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  Problems:

I managed to contact the author recently who allowed me to relicense
the code under Free Software terms.

Parts of the code was enhaced in the past by Adam Bryant, who I couldn't contact.

This files: navy.c, sort.c, and trade.c

and specially trade.c contains this notice:

/*conquer : Copyright (c) 1988 by Ed Barlow.*/
/*

•  The following file "trade.c" was written by Adam Bryant who
•  gives all rights to this code to Ed Barlow provided that this
•  message remains intact.

 */

So my main concern, and I ask for advice is if could relicense all the code to GPL v2 or later granted that I have the permission of Ed Barlow.