Glest RTS for Debian

[Moritz Muehlenhoff]

Alexander Schmehl wrote:
> > It's completely free, the source code is GPL, and the game media is freely
> > distributable.
> 
> No modifications allowed? :( (Still downloading, can't check myself).

They're allowed:
I've contacted upstream and they told me:

| Glest is absolutely free, the code is GPL, and the data uses a custom
| license that basically says that you can do whatever you want with it
| (including total, partial, modified or unmodified redistributions), as
| long as you credit us.
 
> > Upstream authors develop on Win32, but there's a Linux port, that
> > keeps up with the Windows version (and if I understand it correctly it's going
> > to be merged?)
> > 
> > http://www.glest.org
> > http://www.stud.uni-karlsruhe.de/~uxsm/glest
> 
> Couldn't access the later one,

Works for me.

> nut upstream tarball from sourceforge
> seems to contain everything needed to compile it for linux... except
> that you need to run dos2unix over autogen.sh, config.sub and
> config.guess.

It might very well be that the Linux port is already merged upstream.

Cheers,
        Moritz