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Re: [Savannah-hackers] savannah.gnu.org: submission of Liquid War
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Loic Dachary |
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Re: [Savannah-hackers] savannah.gnu.org: submission of Liquid War |
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Thu, 14 Feb 2002 09:45:41 +0100 |
Hi,
Could you please submit your project again with a pointer to
the current source distribution ?
Thanks in advance,
address@hidden writes:
>
> A package was submitted to savannah.gnu.org.
> This mail was sent to address@hidden, address@hidden
>
>
> Christian Mauduit <address@hidden> described the package as follows:
> License: gpl
> Other License:
> Package: Liquid War
> System name: liquidwar
> This package wants to apply for inclusion in the GNU project
>
> Liquid War is a unique multiplayer wargame.
> The whole point is that it uses unique rules and is not a clone of an
> existing game.
> Basically, you control an army of liquid and have to try and eat your
> opponents. It\'s a bit like playing real-time go with thousands of pawns.
> The game is definitely multiplayer oriented, even if a single-player mode is
> available. It has network support, but lag can be important when playing on
> Internet.
>
> Liquid War relies on the Allegro game programming library, which is not
> GPL covered but is listed as Free Software on:
> http://www.gnu.org/software/software.html#DescriptionsOfOtherNonGPLSoftware
>
> Some ancient releases of Liquid War are non-free software but the game is
> GPL\'ed since 1999. To be honest, in these times I didn\'t really know about
> the GNU project 8-)
>
> The game is available for GNU/Linux - possibly any UNIX-like supported by
> Allegro in fact - , Windows and DOS.
>
> Liquid War does exist and is available on http://www.ufoot.org/liquidwar
>
> Thanks and have a nice day.
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