Re: fixing games/doomdata/shareware

On Mon, Oct 28, 2019 at 06:09:54AM +0100, Paul de Weerd wrote:
> ping

Why are you hosting this yourself? ftp.idsoftware.com has been widely
mirrored for a long time.

https://salsa.debian.org/games-team/game-data-packager/blob/master/etc/idstuff-mirrors
https://salsa.debian.org/games-team/game-data-packager/blob/master/etc/idgames-mirrors
https://www.doomworld.com/idgames/idstuff/doom/doom19s
http://mirror.internode.on.net/pub/idstuff/doom/

etc

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> On Fri, Oct 04, 2019 at 10:12:20PM +0200, Paul de Weerd 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}
> |
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