How long until...

[Nils Philippsen]

[Followup on fedora-extras-list]

On Mon, 2005-08-22 at 14:59 +0530, Rahul Sundaram wrote:
> Nils Philippsen wrote:
> 
> >On Mon, 2005-08-22 at 16:06 +1000, Rodd Clarkson wrote:
> >  
> >
> >>... someone gets Quake ]I[ into extras?
> >>
> >>see: http://www.shacknews.com/docs/press/081905_quake3.x
> >>    
> >>
> >
> >... probably a long time because only the code, not the artwork, has
> >been GPLed.
> >
> >Nils
> >  
> >
> The game data including artwork sound etc might have more value but 
> perhaps the gaming engine is nice for other developers to base their 
> work on it. Its not bad to have it in extras if anyone is interested in 
> doing that.

Usually people fork the engine code for their own projects so I doubt
having the q3 engine in Extras (without supplementing artwork) has much
benefit.

Nils
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