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Chris Gianelloni wrote: |
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> On Wed, 2003-10-08 at 08:22, Dhruba Bandopadhyay wrote: |
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>>Hello |
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>> From cvs changelogs I notice ID based based including ET are back in |
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>>portage and also that they now have a licence check. |
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>>-- So what dialogue resulted in them returning and what happened exactly? |
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> Essentially, the games team decided we were going to implement the |
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> license check and put them back in portage. We contacted id Software |
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> and informed them of what we were doing and asked if they had any |
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> objections. You can find that message sent from me in the mailing list |
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> ( a few days ago, Friday, I think). We received a response from the CEO |
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> of id Software which essentially read that id gives up no rights to us |
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> at all and as long as we followed the EULA, we were kosher. The license |
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> check gives us compliance. |
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Ah I see. Well, thank you for the explanation. It's surprising how |
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these turnarounds happen isn't it and just how trivial they can become. |
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I'm over the moon that ID based games are back in portage but also quite |
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sad that the interactivity rule that ebuilds have followed for so long |
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has finally been broken. Nevertheless, one might say it's been a worthy |
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cause and would have happened later if not sooner for a range of |
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packages of a similar sort. |
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