Hi,
Sorry for those getting tired, but in the first mails in this discussion
we had both the quake and the doom licenses, the one which got discussed
a lot was the quake one because that was dubious and turned out to be
not ok.
I believe the doom one is actually distributable under the current
guidelines, I've attached the (ammended) license from the Debian doom
shareware package. Opinions much valued as always.
To make things easy I'll quote the IMHO most relevant part:
"The DOOM shareware wad is freely distributable. No Quake data is
freely distributable.
John Carmack"
Regards,
Hans
This package was debianized by Joe Drew <hoserhead@xxxxxxxx> on
Sat, 23 Oct 1999 21:20:41 -0400.
It was downloaded from ftp.cdrom.com:/pub/idgames
No modifications were performed on this file, other than decompressing
it.
The Doom 1 shareware WAD file is (C) Copyright id Software.
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from John Carmack of ID Software provided this clarification:
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Date: Sat, 23 Oct 1999 20:01:30 -0500
To: Joe Drew <hoserhead@xxxxxxxx>
From: johnc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx (John Carmack)
Subject: Re: Doom shareware WAD license
At 08:02 PM 10/23/99 -0400, you wrote:
>Can you give me a definite license on the doom 1 shareware wad? I find certain
>things that say "freely distribute" and others that say "get vendor's license"
>... All I need to have is a license so I can package it up for Debian.
>Thanks.
>Joe
The DOOM shareware wad is freely distributable. No Quake data is freely
distributable.
John Carmack
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