Bug#799828: quake 1 free gpl conten game oq+

[Simon McVittie]

Control: severity 799828 wishlist
Control: retitle 799828 RFP: oqplus - GPL content for Quake engines
Control: reassign 799828 wnpp

On 23/09/15 03:46, PICCORO McKAY Lenz wrote:
> all the quake engines now can benefice fro a fee gpl open artwork of
> quake data from:
> 
> http://openarena.ws/fsfps/oqplus.html

This might be nice to have in Debian, but it is outside the scope of the
quake package, which specifically exists to support the non-free data
from id Software's Quake series, and can never be in Debian main. If you
are interested in including oqplus in Debian, it should be packaged
separately, in main, similar to OpenArena (openarena, openarena-data,
etc.) and Nexuiz Classic (nexuiz, nexuiz-data). It can be based on the
quake source package, and it can use the same Quake-compatible engines
as the quake package (like Nexuiz Classic does), but it isn't Quake.

Based on my experience with OpenArena, the actual mechanics of packaging
might well be relatively straightforward, with the possible exception of
ensuring that scripting (QuakeC) is properly built from source (oqplus
svn appears to contain a progs.dat and some source code, but no build
system to update progs.dat from source). The difficult and tedious part
is likely to be tracking down the copyright holders and source code for
the assets (artwork, levels, etc.).

>From http://openarena.ws/fsfps/oqplus.html#svn it appears that oqplus
svn might not actually contain the source files for everything in its
repository; it seems to be relying on OpenQuartz CVS for the source for
some files.

Please retitle this bug as an ITP if you want to work on this.

> The project are not dead, its active

The website was last updated in 2008, svn was last updated in 2009, and
the associated forum appears to have been deleted. I don't think this is
going anywhere unless someone (perhaps you) becomes its new upstream
developer.

> As note also CC licences sounds and music can be to contrib repo
> throught EpiQuake replaces pack

If you are interested in including that in Debian or in non-free, please
clone this RFP bug for it. Depending on the specific CC licenses used,
it might be suitable for main (CC-BY >= 2.0, CC-BY-SA >= 2.0), non-free
(CC-* 1.0, -NC, possibly -ND depending whether a Debian package is
considered a derivative work), or non-distributable packaging using
game-data-packager.

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