Wilhelm Spiegl wrote: > > Hi, its once again me. > At the fd gitlab account there is a game called row4, (four in a row) see: > https://gitlab.com/FreeDOS/games/row4 > This version is out of date. > There is an update at the programmers site, see: > > https://akfoerster.de/dl/software/dos/fdos/ROW4.ZIP > The game runs in english. > Would it be possible to enable an upload via fdnpkg or to add it in FDT2407?
Jerome Shidel wrote: > Thanks for point out the package was out of date. I updated the the > version in the FreeDOS GitLab Archive and uploaded it to the package > repository on Ibiblio. > > However as I am sure you have noticed, the game is not currently > provided on any of the release media. > > I’m not sure why and do not recall why that is the case. The game is > licensed as GNU Affero General Public License, version 3 or later. Since > games seem to be one the areas users want and we include nearly all the > games we have whose license permits it, perhaps we should reconsider > excluding it from the release. We generally seem to set the bar fairly > low when it comes to games. I'm not sure why it wasn't included either. I don't see a note about row4 on the wiki: (I don't see any text about "row" on that page - I get one match for "browse") https://wiki.freedos.org/wiki/Releases/1.3/Packages#Games Was row4 part of the release candidates for 1.3? Those would have been the programs I was evaluating for licenses. At a guess, did the licenses not match up? The above wiki page lists a few games that I asked not to include because (for example: Beyond The Titanic) the game said "public domain" in some places and "GNU GPL" in others - and "shareware" on the loading screen. All the license info needs to match up. But you're right that we have been very flexible with games. We decided we can swap out games since they are not "core" like other programs are, but they are fun to play - but some games are popular for a while then people tire of them. _______________________________________________ Freedos-devel mailing list Freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-devel
