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Date:      Tue, 8 Oct 2002 17:39:53 -0700
From:      "David O'Brien" <obrien@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Tim Robbins <tjr@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        Juli Mallett <jmallett@FreeBSD.org>, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/games Makefile src/games/wargames Makefile wargames.6 wargames.c
Message-ID:  <20021009003953.GB14834@dragon.nuxi.com>
In-Reply-To: <20021009103136.A21730@dilbert.robbins.dropbear.id.au>
References:  <200210082019.g98KJQif005952@freefall.freebsd.org> <20021008210843.GA12829@dragon.nuxi.com> <20021009103136.A21730@dilbert.robbins.dropbear.id.au>

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On Wed, Oct 09, 2002 at 10:31:36AM +1000, Tim Robbins wrote:
> > So.  It is part of the 4.4BSD games set.
> 
> So were boggle, chess, ching, dungeon, warp and xneko. It looks like
> ching and xneko got imported, but were later removed.

xneko got removed as we didn't import X11 as 4.4BSD had.
Ching got removed because it was tainted sources.

> Boggle, dungeon and warp don't seem to have been in -Lite. At least
> dungeon and warp don't allow copying for profit. Boggle was "believed
> to contain source code proprietary to AT&T". Chess is/was GNUware.

And a few others were removed when the copyright owners of the board game
sent Wallnut Creak a sease-and-desist letter.

 
> My point is that things come and go, and that many games were removed from
> -Lite that were in 4.4BSD. I'm not one bit sad to see this hideous 80's-ism
> get removed (although I wouldn't have even wasted the effort removing it).

We had a long discussion about this a few years ago.  It was decided to
leave games(6) in the base system.  What will be removed next?  Either
stick to the outcome from the disucssion last time; or do it right and
make a 44bsd-games port and then remove all the games not used in 'make
world'.  A unilateral decission from the one that "lost" the "remove
games from /usr/src src" fight doesn't seem right.

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