Hi, On Fri, Sep 19, 2003 at 11:12:17PM +0200, Mathieu Roy wrote: > Branden Robinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> a tapoté : > > > On Fri, Sep 19, 2003 at 12:21:48AM -0500, Ryan Underwood wrote: > > > I am trying to get my improved fork of the icculus Wolf3d ready for > > > release. There are tons of new features, but I am unclear on the > > > license. > > > > Could you please post the text of the license to the mailing list in > > plain text format? I tried to look at it, but: > > It is the following (clearly non-free): > > > > LIMITED USE SOFTWARE LICENSE AGREEMENT
[..] Obviously the original license is unacceptable; so my curiosity lies in whether or not there was another release at some point with a different license. I'm also wondering how heavy the modifications must be in order not to fall under the original license. Using the recently released `comparator`, I compared the two source trees:a $ ./comparator ~/var/dos/old/wolfsrc2/ ~/afs/pkgs/wolf3d-sdl/debs/wolf3d-0.5rcu/src #SCF-B 2.0 Filtering: language Hash-Method: RXOR Matches: 0 Merge-Program: comparator 2.1 Normalization: line-oriented Shred-Size: 3 %% /home/nemesis/afs/pkgs/wolf3d-sdl/debs/wolf3d-0.5rcu/src/: matches=0, matchlines=0, totallines=37170 /home/nemesis/var/dos/old/wolfsrc2/: matches=0, matchlines=0, totallines=48435 %% Which would seem to imply that there were no substantial similarities between the trees. However, some of the source files are named the same, some of the functions have the same name; and furthermore, I have no idea if I used the tool correctly (it's the first time I used it). However, there were a lot of functions that used DOS/x86 asm that were completely rewritten in C by someone along the line. most ifdefs throughout the code were removed and replaced with runtime conditionals. So I don't know. I would hate to release it and piss someone off. Furthermore, I would like to see it included in Debian, but with the unclear license terms, that is impossible at the moment. Perhaps someone knows someone at id that could be simply asked directly about the status of the code? -- Ryan Underwood, <nemesis at icequake.net>, icq=10317253