On Thu, Dec 23, 1999 at 05:23:58PM -0500, Brian Servis wrote:
> *- 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
Why are those games illegal in those countries?
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