Re: Quake 2 sources GPL'd
On Sun, Dec 23, 2001 at 11:24:21PM -0500, Ben Collins <bcollins@debian.org> was heard to say:
> > Maybe they will! That would be great. But I just don't see any
> > actual effort out there, and it's been possible for a long time now.
>
> What good is wasting the effort for a free set of datafiles for
> something that was binary-only? Having the source means they can
> understand the game better, and that it will be ported to more
> platforms and will be _free_. This only recently happened.
Quake and doom have been released for ages. I am not aware of any
way to play them without using non-free data files. There was a group
that was trying to put together free data for Quake, but I don't
think they're close to having something usable yet.
Daniel
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