Control: severity 799828 wishlist Control: retitle 799828 RFP: oqplus - GPL content for Quake engines Control: reassign 799828 wnpp
On 23/09/15 03:46, PICCORO McKAY Lenz wrote: > all the quake engines now can benefice fro a fee gpl open artwork of > quake data from: > > http://openarena.ws/fsfps/oqplus.html This might be nice to have in Debian, but it is outside the scope of the quake package, which specifically exists to support the non-free data from id Software's Quake series, and can never be in Debian main. If you are interested in including oqplus in Debian, it should be packaged separately, in main, similar to OpenArena (openarena, openarena-data, etc.) and Nexuiz Classic (nexuiz, nexuiz-data). It can be based on the quake source package, and it can use the same Quake-compatible engines as the quake package (like Nexuiz Classic does), but it isn't Quake. Based on my experience with OpenArena, the actual mechanics of packaging might well be relatively straightforward, with the possible exception of ensuring that scripting (QuakeC) is properly built from source (oqplus svn appears to contain a progs.dat and some source code, but no build system to update progs.dat from source). The difficult and tedious part is likely to be tracking down the copyright holders and source code for the assets (artwork, levels, etc.). >From http://openarena.ws/fsfps/oqplus.html#svn it appears that oqplus svn might not actually contain the source files for everything in its repository; it seems to be relying on OpenQuartz CVS for the source for some files. Please retitle this bug as an ITP if you want to work on this. > The project are not dead, its active The website was last updated in 2008, svn was last updated in 2009, and the associated forum appears to have been deleted. I don't think this is going anywhere unless someone (perhaps you) becomes its new upstream developer. > As note also CC licences sounds and music can be to contrib repo > throught EpiQuake replaces pack If you are interested in including that in Debian or in non-free, please clone this RFP bug for it. Depending on the specific CC licenses used, it might be suitable for main (CC-BY >= 2.0, CC-BY-SA >= 2.0), non-free (CC-* 1.0, -NC, possibly -ND depending whether a Debian package is considered a derivative work), or non-distributable packaging using game-data-packager. S
