On Thu, Dec 23, 1999 at 05:23:58PM -0500, Brian Servis wrote: > *- On 23 Dec, Harlan Crystal wrote about "Quake1 included now that GPLed?" > > Hello. > > > > > > Quake1 was recently GPLed. > > > > Does that make it a candidate to become a debian package > > for the games section? It would be a great addition to the > > "games" section. > > > > First, it will have to be in the contrib section because you still need > the non-free .pak files to actually play the game. Just the engine of > the game was released. > > Second, Quake, Doom, and other games are illegal in several countries > like Brazil and Germany. So if Debian includes them on any CD then > those CD's can not be sold at all in those countries. > > Third, there are Debian developers working on it, be patient. > > > Brian Servis
Why are those games illegal in those countries?
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