Re: [tuxracer-devel] ASCII Tech Linux in Japan

[Jasmin P. <jf...@mu...>]

On Thu, May 18, 2000 at 01:51:34PM +0100, Jules Bean wrote:
> Hi there!  I'm not an official tuxracer developer, but in case they
> are busy, I believe I can answer some of your questions.

Thanks Jules.  I've already replied in private email (I included my
mailing address which I didn't want in the archives) -- of course, I
told him that he was free to include Tux Racer on the CD.   

I was also going to post to the list to point out that Satoshi isn't
subscribed to the list (so he didn't get your message); I approved his
message because it was important and I didn't want to risk losing it.

> tuxracer is under the GNU General Public License.  This means that you
> are absolutely welcome to put it on your CD (encouraged, even!),
> however, you should also include the source code, which is either the
> tuxracer-0.12.1.tar.gz or the tuxracer-0.12.1-1.src.rpm. 

I told him that it would be nice to include the source.  However, he
isn't obligated to do so, as long as users are told where to get the
source (and it could be argued that the README includes that
information).

> You don't seem to have listed the tuxracer-data file above!  This is
> rather important, since without it your readers won't have the levels
> to play!  tuxracer-data-0.12.1-1.noarch.rpm is also available from the
> website.

Yup, I pointed that out too.

Btw, earlier this week I received a copy of "Linux Magazine" from Japan,
which features a piece on Tux Racer (as part of a Linux game survey).
I can't read Japanese, but the screenshots looked nice! :)

Here's a link for anyone that's interested (and can read Japanese :) : 

    http://www.linux24.com/linux/linuxmag/

(I wasn't able to track down an on-line version of the article.)

Cheers,
Jasmin

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Jasmin Patry               Master's Student, Dept. of Computer Science
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