On Mon, Aug 18, 2003 at 01:04:12PM -0400, Joey Hess wrote: > Bijan Soleymani wrote: > > I mentionned Dosemu, which is in contrib. Does dosemu depend on non-free > > software? You can use it to run free dos programs. There are many free > > dos programs. > > dosemu is in contrib because it depends on an implementation of DOS, to > boot. While there is a free implementation, freedos, it apparently needs > non-free tools to build, and so is itself in contrib. > > > There are many doom engines in contrib. Again there are very many user > > contributed levels (some of them are really good). Especially the > > deathmatch type levels. > > If you can collect enough data to make a doom wad file that is playable > and is entirely free, then we will include it in the distribution, and > doom will move out of contrib. Nobody has done so yet; individual levels > tend to depend on the non-free wad files.
What about freedoom.sourceforge.net? David -- Happy Birthday, Debian! August 16, 1993 http://www.linuxplanet.com/linuxplanet/print/4959/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
