On Mon, Oct 28, 2019 at 04:31:50PM +1100, Jonathan Gray wrote:
| On Mon, Oct 28, 2019 at 06:09:54AM +0100, Paul de Weerd wrote:
| > ping
| 
| Why are you hosting this yourself? ftp.idsoftware.com has been widely
| mirrored for a long time.

That would work well for me too, is probably even better.

ftp.idsoftware.com is no more, my fear is that other mirrors will fade
away too over time.  I didn't look very hard for other mirrors though,
just mirrored the zip myself and carried on.

| 
https://salsa.debian.org/games-team/game-data-packager/blob/master/etc/idstuff-mirrors
| 
https://salsa.debian.org/games-team/game-data-packager/blob/master/etc/idgames-mirrors
| https://www.doomworld.com/idgames/idstuff/doom/doom19s
| http://mirror.internode.on.net/pub/idstuff/doom/

I've picked one of the mirrors listed at the first debian URL.  See
updated diff below.

Thanks Jonathan!

Paul

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Index: Makefile
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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    28 Oct 2019 07:22:14 -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.gamers.org/pub/idgames/idstuff/doom/
 
 WRKSRC =               ${WRKDIR}
 

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