On Fri, Jul 22, 2005 at 12:20:45AM +0200, Alexander Fieroch wrote: > Package: wnpp > Severity: wishlist > > URL: http://www.doomsdayhq.com/index.php > License: GPL (see http://sourceforge.net/projects/deng) > > Description: > > About The Doomsday Engine > The Doomsday Engine is an enhanced and extended version of DOOM, > Heretic, and Hexen. It was originally based on the Hexen source code but > parts of it have later been completely rewritten. Doomsday is only an > engine; you will need a Game DLL if you want to play anything. Three > such DLLs are being developed alongside the engine: jDoom, jHeretic and > jHexen.
I object to doomsday being packaged. The heretic/hexen source code licence is utterly incompatible with the GPL, making this package technically illegal. It is also very much against the DFSG. See <http://bugs.debian.org/264816> for a similar bug against the existing package for doom legacy. You could arguably only package the engine + doom library portions, but I don't know how much of the heretic/hexen code has made its way into those components (if any). I am currently trying to start negotiations with the publisher of heretic/hexen to relicence under the GPL; this would be the ideal solution to this problem (which applies to doomlegacy as alreay mentioned, doomsday, the derivative risen3d, another port called vavoom: unfortunately, virtually all the doom ports have disregarded the GPL in one way or another :( ) anyone interested in progress updates should mail me. -- Jon Dowland http://jon.dowland.name/ PGP fingerprint: 7032F238 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]