So many Daniels! I'm joking but thanks for picking it up ;)
On Fri, 4 Oct 2019 22:12:20 +0200, Paul de Weerd <we...@weirdnet.nl> wrote: > Hi all, > > In https://marc.info/?l=openbsd-ports&m=156470666814542&w=2 Daniel > Jakots showed that some ports where I'm listed as MAINTAINER have > broken homepages. Here's the first step to fix that: games/doomdata/ > shareware doesn't only have a broken HOMEPAGE, its MASTER_SITES is > also broken. As id doesn't seem to really have a page on (classic) > doom anymore, I've removed HOMEPAGE. Thanks to Stuart who still had a > copy of the original file, the broken MASTER_SITES can be fixed by > hosting the distfile myself. > > Then, 10 years ago (!!!), Daniel Dickman pointed out that the link to > a quote from John Carmack was *also* broken. Back then he suggested > including the quote in the Makefile directly as a comment. Note that > this quote is basically a mail John sent in 1999 (20 years ago!), > explaining that the DOOM shareware wad is freely distributable. I > promised Daniel to look into this when I had more time .. so with > apologies to Daniel I'm finally coming around to that. > > I've tested the wad with games/prboom and can confirm it works fine. > > Can someone please review and, if OK, commit this? > > Thanks, > > Paul > > Index: Makefile > =================================================================== > RCS file: /home/OpenBSD/cvs/ports/games/doomdata/shareware/Makefile,v > retrieving revision 1.4 > diff -u -p -r1.4 Makefile > --- Makefile 12 Jul 2019 20:46:16 -0000 1.4 > +++ Makefile 4 Oct 2019 19:41:33 -0000 > @@ -4,21 +4,39 @@ COMMENT = DOOM I Shareware data files > > DISTNAME = doom19s > PKGNAME = doomdata-1.9 > -REVISION = 0 > +REVISION = 1 > EXTRACT_SUFX = .zip > CATEGORIES = games > > -HOMEPAGE = > http://www.idsoftware.com/games/doom/doom-collectors/ - > MAINTAINER = Paul de Weerd <we...@weirdnet.nl> > > PKG_ARCH = * > > -# John Carmack says "freely distributable" : > -# > http://sinusforschung.com/cgi-bin/dwww/usr/share/doc/doom-wad-shareware/copyright > +# The license does not appear to grant distribution permission. > Email +# from John Carmack of ID Software provided this > clarification: +# +# X-Sender: jo...@mail.idsoftware.com > +# X-Mailer: Windows Eudora Pro Version 3.0 (32) > +# Date: Sat, 23 Oct 1999 20:01:30 -0500 > +# To: Joe Drew <hoserh...@woot.net> > +# From: jo...@idsoftware.com (John Carmack) > +# Subject: Re: Doom shareware WAD license > +# > +# At 08:02 PM 10/23/99 -0400, you wrote: > +# >Can you give me a definite license on the doom 1 shareware wad? I > find certain +# >things that say "freely distribute" and others that > say "get vendor's license" +# >... All I need to have is a license so > I can package it up for Debian. +# >Thanks. > +# >Joe > +# > +# The DOOM shareware wad is freely distributable. No Quake data is > freely +# distributable. > +# > +# John Carmack > +# > PERMIT_PACKAGE = Yes > > -MASTER_SITES = ftp://ftp.idsoftware.com/idstuff/doom/ > +MASTER_SITES = > http://www.weirdnet.nl/OpenBSD/ports/dist/ > WRKSRC = ${WRKDIR} > >
