>On a related note, games. Games are important. Please please please dont >reject someone who wants to package up a game. Thats one of the things I >like about debian, it has so many games. I first got mirrormagic working >under debian... And I hope to see abuse.svga working again too now that >he sources are available. Games are the best and easiest way to have your >first "real" package, and its the most exciting (for a new developer >anyways ;))
And, right on cue... Hi! I subscribed a few days ago, (and have been somewhat overwhelmed by the quantity of mail on this list; is there a digestified version?) and would like to propose that I package up Inform, Frotz, and some of the associated games. Some background: In the '80s, Infocom produced a lot of excellent adventure games, and they published them all in portable, completely architecture-independant 'story files'. When you bought the game, you got an interpreter and a story file, (although you normally didn't know that). Since then, various people have decyphered the story file format and produced a compiler (Inform) to generate these files, and interpreters (Frotz being one) to play them. If we had Frotz, it would be simple to package up a large(ish) number of the games available. I suspect a lot of the games would have to go in contrib, as they don't have their Inform source with them, and Inform itself would have to be non-free, 'cause it has restrictions on profit-making. I think Frotz could go in the main distribution, but I'll have to check on that... Oops, no: "Frotz is freeware: It may be used and distributed freely provided no commercial profit is involved. (c) 1995, 1996 Stefan Jokisch." So, is anyone else working on any of this already? Good/bad idea? How should I go about approaching the authors to ask them to change the licences for these programs (if I should, if fact, do that)? Thanks, --Charles Briscoe-Smith PGP key fingerprint: 74 68 AB 2E 1C 60 22 94 B8 21 2D 01 DE 66 13 E2 White pages entry, including PGP key: <URL:http://alethea.ukc.ac.uk/wp?95cpb4> -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
