Glest RTS for Debian
Moritz Muehlenhoff
jmm at inutil.org
Sun Jan 29 12:42:35 UTC 2006
Alexander Schmehl wrote:
> > It's completely free, the source code is GPL, and the game media is freely
> > distributable.
>
> No modifications allowed? :( (Still downloading, can't check myself).
They're allowed:
I've contacted upstream and they told me:
| Glest is absolutely free, the code is GPL, and the data uses a custom
| license that basically says that you can do whatever you want with it
| (including total, partial, modified or unmodified redistributions), as
| long as you credit us.
> > Upstream authors develop on Win32, but there's a Linux port, that
> > keeps up with the Windows version (and if I understand it correctly it's going
> > to be merged?)
> >
> > http://www.glest.org
> > http://www.stud.uni-karlsruhe.de/~uxsm/glest
>
> Couldn't access the later one,
Works for me.
> nut upstream tarball from sourceforge
> seems to contain everything needed to compile it for linux... except
> that you need to run dos2unix over autogen.sh, config.sub and
> config.guess.
It might very well be that the Linux port is already merged upstream.
Cheers,
Moritz
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