> > At least the Source _is_ useful for novice programmers that are > > interested in 3d game programming. > > How does Quake differ from any other projects in contrib in this way?
Software in contrib needs non-free software to run. But the source of quake2 certainly is useful without the commercial game data. > Contrib consists of free things where the source is available and > therefore can be used as education for interested programmers. The > only reason that it isn't in main is that it is unuseable without > extra stuff that can't be placed in main. which is not true for the quake2 engine, which is certainly a nice thing to study for programmers. But you didn't understand completely what i was talking about; i was considering not packaging the quake2 engine as binary, but packaging the _source_ for developers to look at. Greetings, Erich
