Yesterday, two small cute games, both coded in python and pygame, finally entered the repositories. Both were submitted to the PyWeek Python Game Programming Challenge.

Bouncy the Hungry Rabbit is a game targeted to small children, in which you play a hungry rabbit in a garden with yummy veggies and a farmer who’s not keen on you eating them

Whichwayisup is a kinda traditional 2D platform game with a slight rotational twist, which means that up and down, left and right are constantly changing as you go ahead in the game. One of the interesting things about this game is that it is, AFAIK, the first package in Debian licensed under the CC-by 3.0 (Creative Commons 3.0 Attribution license).

It looks like whichwayisup doesn’t work at the moment. But certainly looks promising (:

Strange, it works for me.. maybe it hasn’t replicated to the mirrors yet?

Works fine right now. Great one! (:

Thanks!!! It’s pretty cool

Has CC-BY-3.0 been declared DFSG-free, or did this one package just slip through?

Mark, I’ve always considered CC-by and CC-by-sa 3.0 as DFSG free.

It was clearly documented in the package’s debian/copyright and in the ITP.

I asked in debian-legal beforehand and I even asked about it to ftpmasters before uploading it (even though I got no answer from them).

I don’t think that the package slip through by any chance, so I kinda consider tha acceptance of the package as a DFSG-freeness declaration.

Hi, and thanks for packaging my game for Debian! If the CC 3.0 Attribution license will still become a problem in the future, I can also consider licensing the artwork and sounds under a different license (perhaps MIT). The source code is under GPL anyway.

Hi Hectigo!

Thank YOU for the game

I don’t think the CC-by 3.0 should be a problem at all, in fact the proof is that it is already in the repositories Anyway, thanks for the offer!

Greetings,
Miry

[...] Debian ya incluye contenido bajo licencias Creative Commons en sus repositorios. Nuestra inniyah ha empaquetado para Debian un juego llamado Whichwayisup, incluyendo los gráficos y músicas distribuídos bajo una licencia Creative Commons 3.0, más concretamente la cc-by o de atribución. Muchos son los que opinan que, en su versión 3.0, tanto la by como la by-sa (atribución y atribución-compartirigiual) son libres según Debian, entre ellos Miriam. Siempre hay quien no está de acuerdo, y Francesco Poli ya ha abierto un bug afirmando que la licencia Creative Commons empleada no es libre según las DFSG. [...]

Thanks for packaging my game (Bouncy) Miriam!

Reference document: http://evan.prodromou.name/Debian_Creative_Commons_Workgroup_report