On Mon, Oct 28, 2019 at 06:09:54AM +0100, Paul de Weerd wrote: > ping Why are you hosting this yourself? ftp.idsoftware.com has been widely mirrored for a long time.
https://salsa.debian.org/games-team/game-data-packager/blob/master/etc/idstuff-mirrors https://salsa.debian.org/games-team/game-data-packager/blob/master/etc/idgames-mirrors https://www.doomworld.com/idgames/idstuff/doom/doom19s http://mirror.internode.on.net/pub/idstuff/doom/ etc > > On Fri, Oct 04, 2019 at 10:12:20PM +0200, Paul de Weerd wrote: > | Hi all, > | > | In https://marc.info/?l=openbsd-ports&m=156470666814542&w=2 Daniel > | Jakots showed that some ports where I'm listed as MAINTAINER have > | broken homepages. Here's the first step to fix that: games/doomdata/ > | shareware doesn't only have a broken HOMEPAGE, its MASTER_SITES is > | also broken. As id doesn't seem to really have a page on (classic) > | doom anymore, I've removed HOMEPAGE. Thanks to Stuart who still had a > | copy of the original file, the broken MASTER_SITES can be fixed by > | hosting the distfile myself. > | > | Then, 10 years ago (!!!), Daniel Dickman pointed out that the link to > | a quote from John Carmack was *also* broken. Back then he suggested > | including the quote in the Makefile directly as a comment. Note that > | this quote is basically a mail John sent in 1999 (20 years ago!), > | explaining that the DOOM shareware wad is freely distributable. I > | promised Daniel to look into this when I had more time .. so with > | apologies to Daniel I'm finally coming around to that. > | > | I've tested the wad with games/prboom and can confirm it works fine. > | > | Can someone please review and, if OK, commit this? > | > | Thanks, > | > | Paul > | > | Index: Makefile > | =================================================================== > | RCS file: /home/OpenBSD/cvs/ports/games/doomdata/shareware/Makefile,v > | retrieving revision 1.4 > | diff -u -p -r1.4 Makefile > | --- Makefile 12 Jul 2019 20:46:16 -0000 1.4 > | +++ Makefile 4 Oct 2019 19:41:33 -0000 > | @@ -4,21 +4,39 @@ COMMENT = DOOM I Shareware data files > | > | DISTNAME = doom19s > | PKGNAME = doomdata-1.9 > | -REVISION = 0 > | +REVISION = 1 > | EXTRACT_SUFX = .zip > | CATEGORIES = games > | > | -HOMEPAGE = http://www.idsoftware.com/games/doom/doom-collectors/ > | - > | MAINTAINER = Paul de Weerd <[email protected]> > | > | PKG_ARCH = * > | > | -# John Carmack says "freely distributable" : > | -# > http://sinusforschung.com/cgi-bin/dwww/usr/share/doc/doom-wad-shareware/copyright > | +# The license does not appear to grant distribution permission. Email > | +# from John Carmack of ID Software provided this clarification: > | +# > | +# X-Sender: [email protected] > | +# X-Mailer: Windows Eudora Pro Version 3.0 (32) > | +# Date: Sat, 23 Oct 1999 20:01:30 -0500 > | +# To: Joe Drew <[email protected]> > | +# From: [email protected] (John Carmack) > | +# Subject: Re: Doom shareware WAD license > | +# > | +# At 08:02 PM 10/23/99 -0400, you wrote: > | +# >Can you give me a definite license on the doom 1 shareware wad? I find > certain > | +# >things that say "freely distribute" and others that say "get vendor's > license" > | +# >... All I need to have is a license so I can package it up for Debian. > | +# >Thanks. > | +# >Joe > | +# > | +# The DOOM shareware wad is freely distributable. No Quake data is freely > | +# distributable. > | +# > | +# John Carmack > | +# > | PERMIT_PACKAGE = Yes > | > | -MASTER_SITES = ftp://ftp.idsoftware.com/idstuff/doom/ > | +MASTER_SITES = http://www.weirdnet.nl/OpenBSD/ports/dist/ > | > | WRKSRC = ${WRKDIR} > | > | > | -- > | >++++++++[<++++++++++>-]<+++++++.>+++[<------>-]<.>+++[<+ > | +++++++++++>-]<.>++[<------------>-]<+.--------------.[-] > | http://www.weirdnet.nl/ > | > > -- > >++++++++[<++++++++++>-]<+++++++.>+++[<------>-]<.>+++[<+ > +++++++++++>-]<.>++[<------------>-]<+.--------------.[-] > http://www.weirdnet.nl/ >
