Re: Fwd: License Update Required for "Micropolis"

Hi Bruno,

On 2/14/26 13:13, Bruno Kleinert wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> did anyone else receive this E-Mail below on the micropolis package? If 
> so, is anyone already working on this?

As far as I know you were the only recipient of this email.
But this is indeed problematic...

> [...] 
> My preferred solution:
> Ask upstream to rename the game, e.g. MinCity (Micropolis Is Not 
> simCity ;) )

I contacted Michael Gernoth, the person behind
https://git.zerfleddert.de/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi/micropolis
asking if he would be onboard with a rebranding of the game.

The most difficult task would be to find a new name.
The rebranding itself is 'easy', I did it locally, using 'freepolis' as 
a new name, but this kind of 5k+ lines patch shouldn't be maintained as 
a downstream patch, so I really hope we could convince upstream to pick 
it up.

> Alternatives:
> 1. Move it to non-free and obey Micropolis GmbH's trademark license
> 2. Remove the game from Debian. But popcon says almost 270 
> installations, though!
> 
> Opinions?

personal opinion: this game has more an historical value than anything 
else, so if we can't have it in main i think we should just remove it.


Cheers,
Sébastien

> 
> Cheers,
> Fuddl