As you said, the programs are GPL, but the game data is not. That's where
FreeDOOM came in, for example.
So we'd need to do something similar for these games to include them in
FreeDOS 1.3, for example.
On Thu, Jul 12, 2018, 9:48 AM thraex <thr...@numericable.fr> wrote:
>
> As far as I know, the source code for Hexen and Heretic was released
> under the GNU GPL v2 _(but unfortunately not the game data if my
> understanding is correct). That said, there are open content game data
> for Heretic on <https://github.com/Blasphemer/blasphemer> and for Hexen
> on <https://github.com/CireG/Zauberer/>. And of course, there's Freedoom
> at <https://github.com/freedoom/freedoom>.
>
> Some additional links:
> https://sourceforge.net/projects/heretic/
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heretic_(video_game)#Source_release
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hexen:_Beyond_Heretic#Source_code
>
> There's also Hexen II, with an active project that released a new
> version a few weeks ago. See
> <
> https://sourceforge.net/projects/uhexen2/files/Hammer%20of%20Thyrion/1.5.9/DOS/
> >.
>
>
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