Re: Quake 2 sources GPL'd
On Sat, Dec 22, 2001 at 09:51:17AM -0500, David B Harris wrote:
> On Sat, 22 Dec 2001 14:37:48 +0100,
> Peter Makholm <peter@makholm.net> wrote:
> > > There's no reason why the engine itself can't be included in Debian,
> > > as far as I'm concerned. It doesn't absolutely *have* to have game
> > > data, to
> >
> > But thats is an argument for putting all the stuff in contrib into
> > Debian main.
>
> Like I said, if you look at it from an educational percpective ... :)
>
> But yeah, I see your point. I think in my mind the big difference is in
> probability. Look at Lyx. It's in contrib because it requires libforms.
> Upstream isn't interesting in rewriting it to not use libforms, and I
> don't see any volounteers to come up with something a la lesstif.
FYI:
Upstream *is* rewriting LyX not to use libforms.
And, also, libforms will be free software in the forseeable future,
very likely.
Either way, woody+1 will have lyx in main.
Jules
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