Bug#799955: RFP: yamagi-xatrix & yamagi-rogue

[PICCORO McKAY Lenz]

i have tested the game-data-packager , build xatrix and rogue packages
and downloading and rebuild the lasted debian new release of
uyamagi-quake2 in wheeze (i cannot due in squeeze due some problems
with python3)

all 3 games workls well, and later test the zaero code from yamagi
(the issue 2#issuecomment-131696544 said tha play complety and seems
stable) and works, i not play complety all the addons yet (i prefer do
in vacation ;-)

i opened a issue #3 in github around the license due zaero license
seems not very clear about the data or code

so lets assume tha the license on yamagi/zaero are correct (id soft
SDK) due the zaero work said that only for backup purposes or similar
without changes (for the data, nothing abour the code)
Lenz McKAY Gerardo (PICCORO)
http://qgqlochekone.blogspot.com


2015-09-30 4:17 GMT-04:30 Simon McVittie <smcv at debian.org>:
> Control: retitle 799954 update yquake2/xatrix to 2.03
> Control: reassign 799954 game-data-packager
> Control: severity 799954 wishlist
> Control: tags 799954 - pending
> Control: retitle 799955 update yquake2/rogue to 2.02
> Control: reassign 799955 game-data-packager
> Control: severity 799955 wishlist
> Control: tags 799955 - pending
> Control: clone 799954 -2
> Control: retitle -2 support for "Zaero" Quake II mod
> Control: tags -2 = help moreinfo
>
> On 30/09/15 08:36, Fabian Greffrath wrote:
>> Zaero is an unofficial add-on for Quake 2 that has once been sold on CD
>> -ROM, but is now available for free (Beer) Download e.g. here:
>>
>> http://www.quakewiki.net/archives/teamevolve/zaero_manual.html
>
> Cloning a wishlist bug for this. It should end up rather similar to
> xatrix and rogue, I think.
>
> Unfortunately, the download link is broken now that Fileplanet has gone
> down. Apparently it should be available somewhere in
> <https://archive.org/search.php?query=fileplanet>, but good luck finding
> it in there...
>
> https://github.com/freebsd/freebsd-ports/blob/master/games/quake2-zaero/distinfo
> has some hashes for the various files, but no hints about where to get them.
>
>> Another one is Juggernaut, but I am not sure if this is available for
>> free...
>
> Yamagi doesn't have game code for this, and while briefly looking for a
> download location I found a review saying it's hideously bad, so maybe
> not worth bothering with anyway.
>
>> Please note that new versions of these engines have been released at
>> Yamagi's site: the rogue add-on is at 2.02 and the xatrix one at 2.03:
>>
>> https://github.com/yquake2/rogue/releases
>> https://github.com/yquake2/xatrix/releases
>
> I've reassigned these RFPs to g-d-p and made them wishlist. Before
> updating the version and sha*sums, a DD should check the diff and make
> sure there's nothing malicious or horribly broken in the new release.
>
> I don't think they can be packaged for Debian any other way, because
> https://github.com/yquake2/xatrix/blob/master/LICENSE makes derivative
> works non-distributable, as far as I can tell. If anyone else disagrees
> with my assessment, and wants to take responsibility for packaging these
> and getting them past the ftp-masters, feel free to reassign back to
> wnpp and turn them into ITPs; but I'm not going to do it.
>
> Similarly, if you think you can convince id lawyers to GPL the
> xatrix/rogue game code, you're welcome to try.
>
>     S
>