I can confirm that this is indeed the full version, which is copyrighted. That they don't publish the APK's is understandable though, as you can compile it yourself from the source in the repo.
On Aug 22, 4:18 am, Terry Poulin <[email protected]> wrote: > This project looks illegal <http://code.google.com/p/quake-android/> and > should be reviewed for removal. > > The project hosts only a download of a ZIP file containing game content > (textures, maps, models, etc) for Id Software's famous game "Quake". Why not > the app file too? The quake engine is open source but the game content is > NOT. These pak file sizes match the files supplied by my retail version of > Quake (purchased via Steam), so I don't think they are reimplementations > (ala Freedom), and I've never heard of any. > > It's only published downloads are sharewhere and *full* data files. See the > entry in the Android Market for > Quake<https://market.android.com/details?id=tk.niuzb.quake&feature=search_r...>. > If so, then those files are copyrighted material of Id Software and the > download ofhttp://quake-android.googlecode.com/files/quake1_data.zipis > pretty darn illegal. Only the sharewhare files may be redistributed IAW > whatever Id Software's terms are. > > Id Software never released the game content for free. Only a shareware > campaign and the game engine code. That is the norm for most of Id > Software's classic games. If they had, I'm pretty sure Linux distros > wouldn't be shipping "Freedom" WADs instead of real DooM I/Doom II WADs! -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Project Hosting on Google Code" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/google-code-hosting?hl=en.
