D1x license

[Hans de Goede]

Michael A. Peters wrote:
> On Fri, 2005-04-29 at 09:00 +0200, Hans de Goede wrote:
> 
>>Hi,
>>
>>Before moving forward with d1x I decided to review all the legal/license 
>>details. The shareware datafiles (as distributed by SUSE) come with the 
>>following text:
>>---
>>The Shareware Descent Data Files are freely distributable to anyone and
>>everyone so long as they are distributed in UNMODIFIED FORM and no fees 
>>are charged.  All the files must be distributed together.
> 
> 
> Who owns the datafiles?
> They are probably best to contact and find out.
>
AFAIK Parallax I'll see if I can contact them, what about the licence 
for the engine source?



> Descent?
> I think I bought that game for Linux at a used bookstore a few years
> back, and it didn't work because my RH was too knew (I was running 8, I
> think it wanted 6.x)
>

The source release works fine on FC3, I'm currently patching it up to 
build with gcc4 for FC4.

Regards,

Hans