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Christian Mauduit <address@hidden> described the package as follows:
License: gpl
Other License: 
Package: U61
System name: u61
This package wants to apply for inclusion in the GNU project

U61 is an extensible multiplayer block-based game.

At first sight, one might think it\'s a plain Tetris clone but it\'s much more 
since its rules are parametered using the scripting language Lua. There are a 
few issues about this:
- I\'m not a license expert so I can\'t qualify Lua as Free Software or not. 
However I know it\'s included in Debian GNU/Linux. Here\'s a link to Lua\'s 
copyright: http://www.tecgraf.puc-rio.br/lua/copyright.html
- I read that any GNU project should try and use Guile if it wants to be 
extensible. Honestly, Lua really fits my needs and U61 is quite finished and 
stable today. So I\'d need to learn guile, then re-code much of the game - 
since almost evrything is based and sort of optimized for Lua - and also break 
backward compatibility to some extent. I\'m wondering if this is a wise choice. 
However, I\'m interested in learning Guile - I\'m interested in learning any 
language in fact 8-) - but I can\'t garantee U61 will have Guile support in a 
near future.
- The Tetris Company (http://www.tetris.com) claims a \"look-and-feel\" 
copyright about Tetris. To be honest this was one of my motivations to make an 
all-purpose and very configurable block-based game which would not fall under 
this kind of so-called copyright. U61 does not IMHO infringe any copyright. All 
the code and artwork is genuine and released under the GPL. Only, you could 
configure it to make it _look like_ Tetris...

Oh, and U61 is released under the GPL...

U61 runs under GNU/Linux - on i386 platforms only today, due to ClanLib 
http://clanlib.org/ limitations - and on Microsoft Windows. 

U61 is stable and available on http://www.ufoot.org/u61

Thanks and have a nice day.