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I'm not sure, but wouldn't it be possible to get the assets from an original installation of the game ?
by antoinec 14y ago
I'm not sure, but wouldn't it be possible to get the assets from an original installation of the game ?
- GuiA 14y agoYes, but they're presumably still owned by LucasArts or something along those lines.
- Argorak 14y agoSure, but how would apt handle that? Releasing an apt package with the assets would be copyright infringement. All ID games suffer from the same problems.
- zokier 14y agoSeparate data and engine packages, engine package distributed by Debian, data left as the responsibility of the user. That way the iD games are in debian too. eg. http://packages.debian.org/wheezy/quake http://packages.debian.org/wheezy/quake
- e12e 14y agoIt could be packaged, without assets, but with an "installer" that prompts for a cd/source to copy from (along the lines of what ttf-mscorefonts-installer does, for instance -- or freecraft[1] for a more similar example: "FreeCraft needs a lot of data (maps and artwork), that can come from WarCraft II CD, or from the FreeCraft Media Project, codename fcmp, that has support for almost all the data present in WarCraft II. (...) WarCraft II is a registered trademark of Blizzard Entertainment."). [1] http://manpages.ubuntu.com/manpages/dapper/man6/freecraft.6.html http://manpages.ubuntu.com/manpages/dapper/man6/freecraft.6....