On Mon, 2002-09-09 at 02:08, Michael Holt wrote: > Alright, I'm confused - is this the quake2 that I bought off the shelf > with just driver changes and optimisations for the newer libs contained in > newer systems? Or is this some other game using the q2 title?
Well, pedantically put it's neither. id released the Quake2 code under the GPL. This is a port of that source code to the Linux platform, using Linux libs, and with some enhancements. But it's NOT the Quake2 you got off the shelf, since that's still commercial software; only the source code for the executable has been GPL'ed, not the game data. So strictly speaking this is a modified version of the original game's executable that you can use with data files from the id game. On its own, it's useless. This kind of thing is generally known in the gaming world (particularly relating to id titles) as a 'source port'. -- adamw
