On Mon, Jan 20, 2014 at 11:47:38AM -0600, David Loyall wrote: > There was this non-free game for PC called Descent, back in the mid > nineties. (It wasn't called a non-free game back then, it was just > called a cool game!) At some point, the source was re-licensed as > free software, but not the artwork, and the build depended on non-free > compilers. For a year or so, folks who had access to those compilers > were releasing binaries, new builds of the game, and all along they > were also working to make it build under gcc. Long story short: they > eventually succeeded and many derivative projects have been created, > including http://packages.debian.org/unstable/d2x-rebirth .
I understand the point you are trying to make, however the dxx-rebirth project is a bad example. The license for that says that the software is restricted to non-commercial, royalty or revenue free purposes, etc. It actually sounds quite restrictive. According to the free software definition page: "A free program must be available for commercial use, commercial development, and commercial distribution." https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.html As such, it cannot be considered free software. -Adam
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