Looking for a good source port for Heretic

[Vegeta]

in Zdoom the powered up firemace doesn't behave as in vanilla Heretic. While in the original the projectile course and speed is modified by the direction you are moving (you can make the projectile to be launched to a side, or further if you run forward and then shoot), in Zdoom it's allways shooted to the standard direction, at the standard speed and distance.

[Graf Zahl]

@Myk:

The license is utter nonsense when applied to source code. Of course you can twist and turn to get some 'meaning' out of it.
But the fact remains that by its very nature it's a standard issue EULA for released binaries and the wording is more than clear about that. For me it is clear that the people responsible for this were either lazy or just plain stupid - probably even both.
And if the license was considered genuine I'd think we'd have heard something by now from Raven or Activision. Clearly they have no interest in stopping source ports from using their code. In fact, to me it seems they have no real interest in their code at all or they wouldn't just ignore the GPL requests.

[myk]

Graf Zahl said:
For me it is clear that the people responsible for this were either lazy or just plain stupid - probably even both.

A more likely explanation is that those mainly responsible were businessmen, who have points of view and interests that differ greatly from those of an "online community".

In fact, to me it seems they have no real interest in their code at all or they wouldn't just ignore the GPL requests.

I doubt they see much to gain commercially from it, which is what they're generally after, and thus simply put safeguards on their "IP" in case some other like-minded business might want to take advantage of their release.

They aren't John Carmack with his "hacker culture" background, but at least they didn't impede the release.

[Graf Zahl]

myk said:

A more likely explanation is that those mainly responsible were businessmen, who have points of view and interests that differ greatly from those of an "online community".

No matter why they did it, they clearly didn't think it through. The fact that the attached license is an unaltered version of a common EULA for binary distribution without even the slightest hint of recognition that it has been attached to source code is proof enough for me.

And BTW, businessmen don't bother with legal crap, that's the domain of corporate lawyers and related lowlifes. And as anyone might know, corporate lawyers will one day bring down modern civilisation. :D