Re: fixing games/doomdata/shareware

So many Daniels!

I'm joking but thanks for picking it up ;)

On Fri, 4 Oct 2019 22:12:20 +0200, Paul de Weerd <weerd@weirdnet.nl>
wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> In https://marc.info/?l=openbsd-ports&m=156470666814542&w=2 Daniel
> Jakots showed that some ports where I'm listed as MAINTAINER have
> broken homepages. Here's the first step to fix that: games/doomdata/
> shareware doesn't only have a broken HOMEPAGE, its MASTER_SITES is
> also broken. As id doesn't seem to really have a page on (classic)
> doom anymore, I've removed HOMEPAGE. Thanks to Stuart who still had a
> copy of the original file, the broken MASTER_SITES can be fixed by
> hosting the distfile myself.
>
> Then, 10 years ago (!!!), Daniel Dickman pointed out that the link to
> a quote from John Carmack was *also* broken. Back then he suggested
> including the quote in the Makefile directly as a comment. Note that
> this quote is basically a mail John sent in 1999 (20 years ago!),
> explaining that the DOOM shareware wad is freely distributable. I
> promised Daniel to look into this when I had more time .. so with
> apologies to Daniel I'm finally coming around to that.
>
> I've tested the wad with games/prboom and can confirm it works fine.
>
> Can someone please review and, if OK, commit this?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Paul
>
> Index: Makefile
> ===================================================================
> RCS file: /home/OpenBSD/cvs/ports/games/doomdata/shareware/Makefile,v
> retrieving revision 1.4
> diff -u -p -r1.4 Makefile
> --- Makefile 12 Jul 2019 20:46:16 -0000 1.4
> +++ Makefile 4 Oct 2019 19:41:33 -0000
> @@ -4,21 +4,39 @@ COMMENT = DOOM I Shareware data files
>
> DISTNAME = doom19s
> PKGNAME = doomdata-1.9
> -REVISION = 0
> +REVISION = 1
> EXTRACT_SUFX = .zip
> CATEGORIES = games
>
> -HOMEPAGE =
> http://www.idsoftware.com/games/doom/doom-collectors/ -
> MAINTAINER = Paul de Weerd <weerd@weirdnet.nl>
>
> PKG_ARCH = *
>
> -# John Carmack says "freely distributable" :
> -#
> http://sinusforschung.com/cgi-bin/dwww/usr/share/doc/doom-wad-shareware/copyright
> +# The license does not appear to grant distribution permission.
> Email +# from John Carmack of ID Software provided this
> clarification: +# +# X-Sender: johnc@mail.idsoftware.com
> +# X-Mailer: Windows Eudora Pro Version 3.0 (32)
> +# Date: Sat, 23 Oct 1999 20:01:30 -0500
> +# To: Joe Drew <hoserhead@woot.net>
> +# From: johnc@idsoftware.com (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
> +#
> PERMIT_PACKAGE = Yes
>
> -MASTER_SITES = ftp://ftp.idsoftware.com/idstuff/doom/
> +MASTER_SITES =
> http://www.weirdnet.nl/OpenBSD/ports/dist/
> WRKSRC = ${WRKDIR}
>
>