Charles Briscoe-Smith wrote: > Hi! I subscribed a few days ago, (and have been somewhat overwhelmed > by the quantity of mail on this list; is there a digestified version?) > and would like to propose that I package up Inform, Frotz, and some of > the associated games. [pro-infocom propaganda snipped]
Wonderful. As the guy who ported frotz to unix, I'd be very pleased to see it distributed with Debian. I was going to do it myself, but was waiting for a few things... Right now, I believe we have an old version of the ITF interpreter in the "infocom" package. This should probably be scrapped, as it is highly obsolete given our current Z-machine knowledge. > Oops, no: "Frotz is freeware: It may be used and distributed freely > provided no commercial profit is involved. (c) 1995, 1996 Stefan > Jokisch." I'm going to talk to Stefan about getting this wording relaxed. Does anybody out there have any suggestions for a new wording which keeps the spirit of this, but makes it possible to put Frotz in the main distribution? Please? > So, is anyone else working on any of this already? Good/bad idea? Good. I'm working on converting the lastest Frotz (2.22) to unix, but need *SOMEBODY* (ahem ahem) to release an ncurses library which works with libc6 before I can finish. If you want, you can package the older version for now. --Galen -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
