We have made efforts to make FreeQuake clean and legal, and as far as the files go they are all distributed in one shape or form elsewhere, with the except of the shareware installer, which, we did make make.
PlanetQuake ran a news item on it when it was first released last year and up until this conversation, none of the thoughts you've expressed here had ever even crossed my mind.
It has always been a point of pride, until maybe the last couple of hours, how legal and clean our project is and the fact that we have bent over backwards to keep it purely legal.
Skulltag:
http://www.skulltag.com/
I'll have to spend some time thinking about this. There are several other very public projects of a similar nature for other games that operate openly like we do. I'll have to do a compare and contrast and see what is considered acceptable vs. not.
I feel my interpretation of the GPL in combination with the Carmack letter is correct. At least I was sure, until today.
I spend some time thinking about it and see how I feel in a couple of days.
Either way, this has been a higher quality conversation that I have had in a while and at least you guys aren't still sulking about the Quake is dying thread
Thank you for the help with the trivial QuakeC modification I needed some assistance with. I'll probably be back for more when I get some other simple ideas.
