A pretty decent deal from id/Steam

[jpub]

id has added their back catalog to the Steam digital ditribution system, and until August 10th, there's a special deal available. You can get all of these:
Commander Keen, Episodes 1 through 5
Wolfenstein 3D
Spear of Destiny
Return to Castle Wolfenstein
Ultimate DOOM
DOOM II
Master Levels for DOOM II
Final DOOM
DOOM3
DOOM3: Resurrection of Evil
QUAKE
QUAKE Mission Pack 1: Scourge of Armagon
QUAKE Mission Pack 2: Dissolution of Eternity
QUAKE II
QUAKE II Mission Pack: The Reckoning
QUAKE II Mission Pack: Ground Zero
QUAKE III Arena
QUAKE III: Team Arena
Heretic: Shadow of the Serpent Riders
HeXen
HeXen: Deathkings of the Dark Citadel
HeXen II
For $62.95.

I was weak, I bought it.

[Kokuten]

this package also includes a FREE GPL VIOLATION!Wire Geek - Burning the weak and trampling the dead since 1979Wire Geek - Burning the weak and trampling the dead since 1979

[jpub]

Actually, it doesn't. That was cleared up in about 5 minutes.
GPL applications/tools can be included in commercial software, as long as the GPL-required text files are included, and it is *clear* that you are paying for the commercial code, not the GPL code.
id/Valve's problem was they didn't include all the text files (they included the license file, but not the copying.txt file and a couple others) - that wasn't a GPL violation, it was just asshollery.
They included the files with a recent update, and it's all fixed now.
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Christopher Angel, aka JPublic
The Works of Christopher Angel
"Camaraderie, adventure, and steel on steel. The stuff of legend! Right, Boo?"

[Kokuten]

awww, I wanted my dramas!
I wonder if the .WAD files are all there still, on the DOOM stuff.. might be worth it to stuff them into WinDoom and have some nice modern engine high-res doomfest. Wire Geek - Burning the weak and trampling the dead since 1979Wire Geek - Burning the weak and trampling the dead since 1979

[CattyNebulart]

I don't belive the GPL forbids you from selling the stuff, as long as the code is included of course. But what it doesn't allow is prohibiting the futher distubution of the GPL'ed material, meaning anyone can just put it on the web and there is nothing you can do about it.
E: "Did they... did they just endorse the combination of the JSDF and US Army by showing them as two lesbian lolicons moving in together and holding hands and talking about how 'intimate' they were?"
B: "Have you forgotten so soon? They're phasing out Don't Ask, Don't Tell."

[Kokuten]

IANAL
However, I _think_ that in this case, the GPL distribution regime would only apply to the DosBox emulator being used to make the older stuff run more reliably/better, not to the propietary ID Stuff.
Anyone remember the Quake CD with a buttload of full versions on it?Wire Geek - Burning the weak and trampling the dead since 1979Wire Geek - Burning the weak and trampling the dead since 1979

[jpub]

Yeah, I remember that CD, it was hilarious. It took like what, 1 day before everyone on the 'net had the keygen for all the games?--
Christopher Angel, aka JPublic
The Works of Christopher Angel
"Camaraderie, adventure, and steel on steel. The stuff of legend! Right, Boo?"

[Kokuten]

I had the keygen for a week or so before the CD arrived, yay living in Alaska.Wire Geek - Burning the weak and trampling the dead since 1979Wire Geek - Burning the weak and trampling the dead since 1979