Package: wnpp
Severity: wishlist
Package name: inform6
Version: 6.33
Upstream developer: Inform project
URL: http://inform7.com/sources/i6n/
License: Artistic License 2.0
Programming language: C
Description: Inform 6 interactive fiction language
Inform 6 is an object-oriented language for writing interactive
fiction, also known as “text adventures” or “adventure games”.
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As a story developer, you create Inform 6 source code describing the
story. Then compile from source code to “Z-code”, the bytecode for a
virtual machine (a “Z-machine”). The resulting story files are highly
portable, with Z-code interpreters available for many different
platforms.
After many years of non-free development, Inform 6 is free software!
The previous upstream maintainers have granted license to the code
base under the conditions of the Artistic License 2.0, which makes the
work conform to the Debian Free Software Guidelines.
Many contributed extensions are also now licensed under free software
conditions.
Thanks to David Griffith and others for continuing the work of
expanding the freedom of the Inform 6 code base by pursuing explicit
written grants of free-software license conditions.
About the name “Inform 6” and the earlier ‘inform’ package:
In the intervening years since Inform 6 was last released upstream,
the Inform community has also embarked on a more ambitious language
called Inform 7.
Inform 7 and Inform 6 are not versions of the same language. They are
fundamentally incompatible, maintained as distinct languages and code
bases.
Yet Inform 6 remains part of the same project; see the Inform project's
explanation at <URL:http://inform7.com/sources/i6n/>.
So these free-software Debian packages have names and descriptions that
make clear they install the stand-alone Inform 6 language.
The ‘inform’ package, representing an earlier version of the same
Inform 6 code base, becomes a transitional package to ‘inform6’.
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