-------- Original Message -------- Subject: Re: POWDER Date: Wed, 5 Mar 2008 10:07:57 -0500 From: Jeff Lait <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Gürkan Sengün <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> References: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
On Wed, Mar 5, 2008 at 6:33 AM, Gürkan Sengün <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
hello jeff i'm an ascender of nethack, who loves powder!
Excellent! Glad you are enjoying it!
have you played kqlives.sf.net yet?
No. I just looked it up, and it looks interesting. Unfortunately, it seems to tend on the console-rpg style play, which I have grown to dislike. I managed to play through Golden Sun, but Golden Sun 2 got about 10 minutes of playtime before I threw it out in disgust. I wrote POWDER to get away from that sort of play. No plot, all crawl! :>
i've created a debian package (also suitable for ubuntu) of it at http://gnu.ethz.ch/debian/powder/
Excellent, thank you.
the license of the software doesn't allow putting it into debian and ubuntu officially (at least not main, nor contrib. non-free might work but has several drawbacks). do you think you might change the license to something like gnu gpl, artistic license, bsd license or make it public domain sometimes?
That is a problem with debian. I will *not* change my license. Artistic/BSD/PD are out as I do not want a third party putting POWDER on a ROM and selling it. GPL is out because it effectively prohibits even myself from putting it on a ROM. (Not to mention the GBA version becomes illegal) POWDER is, in the Debian sense, not free and will remain that way for the foreseeable future. I see this as a problem with Debian, not with POWDER :> - Jeff