Hello,

> On Jan 23, 2022, at 5:09 AM, Michał Dec <moog...@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Perhaps Quake2 could become a FreeDOS package?

This was just a quick and cursory examination. It could be completely wrong...

I see two problems with providing it as a package included with FreeDOS. 

First, I took a quick look at the pages and browsed the source and did not see 
any LICENSE or COPYING Policy. Perhaps it is mentioned somewhere, but at a 
glance I did not notice one. Without such a declaration, I think it technically 
is source-available not open-source. But, I’m no lawyer. 

Second, you mention in you “how I got it to work” section that you needed to 
copy the data files from the CD. So, I don’t see how we could legally 
include those files. Without them, it would not be playable. 

That being said. You could turn it into a package for your personal use. 
Basically, using running pkgmaker before you go through that process of 
installing and configuring it. Then once again afterwards. Then using using 
pkg2zip to create the package archive. All part of the latest PKGINFO package 
released after RC5. The version in RC5 has some issues under certain 
situations. 

Unless your going to setup and use a local software repo with FDIMPLES, it 
would probably be easier to just zip up all your work and keep it around 
somewhere for later usage.

Jerome

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