On Mon, Dec 24, 2001 at 02:53:25PM +0100, Erich Schubert wrote: > > No, it doesn't apply, because quake2 is an engine for a game, not an > > interpreter for a language. > > Actually the quake2 engine IS. > It's a runtime environment (you might call it interpreter) for the graphics > files and the gamei386.so (or whatever it was called) > These graphics files and the gamei386.so can be exchanged to make a very > different game out of the same engine. > The gamei386.so for the original quake2 is GPL, too, but not necessary > (as this is, i think, the only part that really depends on the > commercial data files!!!) > > So the engine IS free; the original quake2 rules should go into contrib. > > Think of python running a compiled python script (?) > or java running a "java program".
But it still depends on the -data, just as much as every other package that depends on a -data does. And until there actually IS an alternative, it has to live with the side effects of a dependency on a non-free. -- Adam Olsen, aka Rhamphoryncus
