Hi again, I made some investigation on the free duke3d implementations out there:
- I digged into icculus.org's duke3d and discovered that it depends on Ken's Build engine, which is non-free. I contacted Ken and attempted to convince him to re-license, without much success. - Later I was pointed out that combining the GPLed legacy duke3d code with Ken's Build might be in violation of the GPL. - OTOH, openduke is based on OpenGL instead of Ken's Build, and is, FWICS, fully GPLed. I'll send a separate ITP for openduke and upload it soon (it's already packaged). - WRT icculus.org's duke3d, we should probably discuss in debian-legal to confirm it is in GPL violation, and inform its developers of the problem. This ITP should be put on hold untill the GPL violation issue is cleared out. -- Robert Millan "[..] but the delight and pride of Aule is in the deed of making, and in the thing made, and neither in possession nor in his own mastery; wherefore he gives and hoards not, and is free from care, passing ever on to some new work." -- J.R.R.T., Ainulindale (Silmarillion)
