Re: rms on debian
On Mon, Aug 18, 2003 at 01:04:12PM -0400, Joey Hess wrote:
> Bijan Soleymani wrote:
> > I mentionned Dosemu, which is in contrib. Does dosemu depend on non-free
> > software? You can use it to run free dos programs. There are many free
> > dos programs.
>
> dosemu is in contrib because it depends on an implementation of DOS, to
> boot. While there is a free implementation, freedos, it apparently needs
> non-free tools to build, and so is itself in contrib.
>
> > There are many doom engines in contrib. Again there are very many user
> > contributed levels (some of them are really good). Especially the
> > deathmatch type levels.
>
> If you can collect enough data to make a doom wad file that is playable
> and is entirely free, then we will include it in the distribution, and
> doom will move out of contrib. Nobody has done so yet; individual levels
> tend to depend on the non-free wad files.
What about freedoom.sourceforge.net?
David
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