Tremulous isn't free (as in freedom) software?

[guyjohnston]

Does anyone know why the game Tremulous is in the Muliverse repository rather than Universe? From what I can tell from the 'Copyright' files, the code is under the GNU GPL except for a few exceptions under other compatible free licences such as the Zlib licence, and the 'media' is under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike Licence, which I'd have thought also counts as a free licence.

[Sammi]

I believe it even uses the gpl'd quake 3 engine.

Check out the wikipedia.org article:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tremulous

Maybe this is something worth metioning to the Ubuntu repository MOTUs. See this page for MOTU contact info: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/MOTU

[compiledkernel]

I believe it lives in multiverse because its a community provided package, but I could be wrong.

[rajeev1204]

hi

Tremulous is in repository?? where? FOr dapper 64 bit?

[Sammi]

Searching on http://packages.ubuntu.com/ gave me these results under dapper backports:
Package Search Results

You have searched for packages that names contain tremulous in distribution edgy, all sections, and all architectures.


Found 4 matching packages, displaying packages 1 to 4.
Package tremulous
edgy (http://packages.ubuntu.com/edgy/games/tremulous) (games): Aliens vs Humans, team based FPS game with elements of an RTS [multiverse]
1.1.0-2: amd64 i386 powerpcPackage tremulous-data
edgy (http://packages.ubuntu.com/edgy/games/tremulous-data) (games): Tremulous datas [multiverse]
1.1.0-1: allPackage tremulous-doc
edgy (http://packages.ubuntu.com/edgy/games/tremulous-doc) (games): Tremulous documentation [multiverse]
1.1.0-2: allPackage tremulous-server
edgy (http://packages.ubuntu.com/edgy/games/tremulous-server) (games): Tremulous server [multiverse]
1.1.0-2: amd64 i386 powerpc

I'm not 100% sure about this, but I think you can just add these lines to your /etc/apt/sources.list file and it should show up in Synaptic:
deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu dapper-backports main restricted universe multiverse
deb-src http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu dapper-backports main restricted universe multiverse

You edit sources.list by doing this command:
gksudo gedit /etc/apt/sources.list

[darkazurka]

You know one of the top maps ATCS? It contains media that is non-free culture.

So, in your maps folder that came with your game: (if you installed it through synaptic or apt-get , then it can be found at
/usr/share/games/tremulous/base/map-atcs-1.1.0.pk3

You can open it with for example "Archive Manager" and inside you find the file atcs.txt

There under [ other notices ] you find textures by yves allaire fall under this license:

http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nd-nc/1.0/

Also textures from shaderlab: Other non-commercial applications are considered on a case-by-case basis via e-mail.
which is the only mention of commercial rights, meaning that it probably falls under a similar license to cc-by-nc-sa , so you are not allowed to use it for commercial purposes.

So the stated media being under CC-BY-SA 2.5 is false. I guess they didn't think it priority one to make it clear WHAT is licensed under WHICH license.

A quick look. The popular map Niveus also has textures from yves allair: textures by yves allaire fall under this license:

http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nd-nc/1.0/
Quick link if you've installed Tremulous from Synaptic or apt-get or any other package manager: /usr/share/games/tremulous/base/map-niveus-1.1.0.pk3 (open map-niveus-1.1.0.pk3) and inside you find the file niveus.txt

This can help also as a reference on why Tremulous is in Multiverse