Re: text adventures
On Fri, 24 Jul 1998 22:38:41 +0100 Charles Briscoe-Smith wrote:
> There are several free and non-free publically available interpreters,
> which can be used either to play the original non-free Infocom games,
> or any of the more or less free Inform-compiled games. 'xzip' is free
> and is in main; 'infocom' would be free if its licence were clarified,
> so it isn't in main just now; 'frotz' needs its licence changed (this
> was agreed-to upstream, but never actioned).
This is very good news!
FWIW: The new beta jzip interpreter has a BSD-like license, but
I (or the jzip maintainer [are you listening] should ask
the author whether the original zip-author has agreed to the
new license, since the old jzip interpreters had the original
(somewhat murky) zip-license.
David
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