G'day Johnny, It is nice to hear this question. netrek-client-cow does not include RES-RSA. netrek-server does not include RES-RSA. You can see an independent review of the license of netrek-client-cow on the Debian package: http://packages.debian.org/changelogs/pool/main/n/netrek-client-cow/netrek-client-cow_3.3.0-3/netrek-client-cow.copyright I don't think you need to package the server. There are servers on the internet already, and the source compiles fine. The license can be found in include/copyright.h and include/copyright2.h with another mention in docs/README. Latest version of netrek-client-cow is 3.3.1 released 18th October 2011. Latest version of netrek-server-vanilla is 2.18.0 released 18th June 2011, but all servers use the source in darcs. On Tue, Feb 28, 2012 at 10:06:10PM +0100, Johnny Solbu wrote: > Hi. > I am in the process of packaging the COW client to Mageia, and possibly also Mandriva, and putting it in the non-free repository because of the current license. And I have a question about the license. > > The last day I have looked around for the license of the program, which I have found (copyright.h and copyright2.h). > During my search I found this list, when in a message from may 2009 you got the permission to relicense "RES-RSA" under the BSD license. > And I am wondering, is there any attempt to also relicence the client, and possibly the vanilla server under a Free Software license, like the BSD? > > The cow client and the vanila server are currently Non-free programs as it doesn't permitt commerical use, which the BSD and GPL licenses allow. > Or is it already under the BSD-licence and someone have forgotten to update/add a licence to the package stateing that it is relicenced? > > -- > Johnny A. Solbu > web site, http://www.solbu.net > PGP key ID: 0xFA687324 > ******************************** > Kom Arbeidslyst og treng deg p?, > her skal du motstand finne. > _______________________________________________ > netrek-dev mailing list > netrek-dev at us.netrek.org > http://mailman.us.netrek.org/mailman/listinfo/netrek-dev -- James Cameron http://quozl.linux.org.au/