Blobwars has no audio

Bug #561182 reported by David Dean
32
This bug affects 5 people
Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
blobwars (Ubuntu)
Confirmed
Wishlist
Ayrton Santana

Bug Description

 Guus Sliepen say:

"The sound issue is caused by licensing issues, not by any problem in the source
code, see /usr/share/doc/blobwars/README.Debian. Since a large part of the
original sound and music lacks any copyright and author information, it is
deemed undistributable by Debian, not even in non-free. Replacement music has
been found and a version of blobwars that contains it might be released in a
few months, sound is next.

If you wish to help finding replacement sounds, that would be great. Hans de
Goede (hdegoede at redhat dot com) from RedHat is also involved in getting
free-as-in-speech music and sound for the Parallel Realities games.
Some information is on the wiki I have put up on the SourceForge pages:

http://sourceforge.net/apps/mediawiki/blobwars/
http://sourceforge.net/apps/mediawiki/blobandconquer/"

Guus Sliepen made a related bug report to upstream:
http://bugs.debian.org/495484

Gerfried Fuchs filled a bug report to upstream:
http://bugs.debian.org/590430

Ayrton Araujo solved the problem in an alternative running in a terminal:
cd /tmp ; wget -c http://www.parallelrealities.co.uk/download/blobwars/blobwars-1.17-1.i386.deb; sudo aptitude purge blobwars blobwars-data && sudo dpkg -i blobwars-1.17-1.i386.deb
(This will install a different version of blobwars, from Parallel Realities, with sound. The Ubuntu community doesn't offer support for this version)

Revision history for this message
David Dean (ddean-ieee) wrote :
Revision history for this message
jhansonxi (jhansonxi) wrote :

The 1.17 deb from the Parallel Realities web site works.
http://www.parallelrealities.co.uk/projects/blobWars.php

Revision history for this message
Ayrton Santana (ayrton) wrote :

Try this:

cd /tmp ; wget -c http://www.parallelrealities.co.uk/download/blobwars/blobwars-1.17-1.i386.deb; sudo aptitude purge blobwars blobwars-data && sudo dpkg -i blobwars-1.17-1.i386.deb

Is necessary to update the source package. It's obsolete.

Ayrton Santana (ayrton)
Changed in blobwars (Ubuntu):
assignee: nobody → Ayrton Araujo (ayrton)
status: New → Confirmed
Revision history for this message
Ansgar Burchardt (aburch) wrote :

The sound has been removed from Debian as it is non-free [1].
I'm changing the importance to "wishlist" as playing the game is possible without sound as well.

[1] <http://bugs.debian.org/495484>

Changed in blobwars (Ubuntu):
importance: Undecided → Wishlist
Revision history for this message
Ayrton Santana (ayrton) wrote :

Gerfried Fuchs filled a bug report to upstream:
http://bugs.debian.org/590430

Revision history for this message
Ayrton Santana (ayrton) wrote :

I received this e-mail reply of Guus Sliepen:

"The sound issue is caused by licensing issues, not by any problem in the source
code, see /usr/share/doc/blobwars/README.Debian. Since a large part of the
original sound and music lacks any copyright and author information, it is
deemed undistributable by Debian, not even in non-free. Replacement music has
been found and a version of blobwars that contains it might be released in a
few months, sound is next.

If you wish to help finding replacement sounds, that would be great. Hans de
Goede <email address hidden> from RedHat is also involved in getting
free-as-in-speech music and sound for the Parallel Realities games.
Some information is on the wiki I have put up on the SourceForge pages:

http://sourceforge.net/apps/mediawiki/blobwars/
http://sourceforge.net/apps/mediawiki/blobandconquer/"

Ayrton Santana (ayrton)
tags: added: blobwars licensing soung
removed: apport-bug i386 lucid
tags: added: nosound
removed: soung
Ayrton Santana (ayrton)
description: updated
description: updated
Changed in blobwars (Ubuntu):
status: Confirmed → In Progress
Ayrton Santana (ayrton)
Changed in blobwars (Ubuntu):
status: In Progress → Confirmed
To post a comment you must log in.
This report contains Public information  
Everyone can see this information.

Other bug subscribers

Related questions

Remote bug watches

Bug watches keep track of this bug in other bug trackers.