Re: Quake1 included now that GPLed?

[Brian Servis <servis@purdue.edu>]

*- On 23 Dec, Harlan Crystal wrote about "Quake1 included now that GPLed?"
> Hello.
> 
> 
> Quake1 was recently GPLed.
> 
> Does that make it a candidate to become a debian package
> for the games section?  It would be a great addition to the 
> "games" section.
> 

First, it will have to be in the contrib section because you still need
the non-free .pak files to actually play the game.  Just the engine of
the game was released.

Second, Quake, Doom, and other games are illegal in several countries
like Brazil and Germany.  So if Debian includes them on any CD then
those CD's can not be sold at all in those countries.

Third, there are Debian developers working on it, be patient.


Brian Servis
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