[Freeciv-Dev] Re: (PR#3589) Patch: Add more nations

["Per I. Mathisen" <per@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

<URL: http://bugs.freeciv.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=3589 >

On Sat, 18 Jun 2005, Jason Short wrote:
> Most nations came from anonymous sources,and were edited by Raimar Falke
> and myself. See PR#3589.
>
> However these sources aren't really anonymous.We just don't know who
> they are because Raimar didn't keep track of it.Many of these can be
> found in ftp://ftp.freeciv.org/freeciv/contrib/nations/ , especially in
> the 12nations file.We need at a minimum to include these contributors
> in PEOPLE, and in some cases (not 12nations, since it's a diff and
> implicitly GPL) may need to contact the authors to make sure the data is
> GPL.

The data is implicitly GPL since AFAICT they either used existing nation
ruleset files to create their new nation files, ie they are derived works
and could only be distributed under the GPL, or the data is just a list of
disparate, known facts, which I do not believe to be copyrightable.

  - Per