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Eruanna
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2010-11-09 16:52
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Skulltag already asks if you want to download Freedoom and offers you an option to visit one of two sites if it cannot find an IWAD: get Freedoom, or buy Doom 2 on Steam.
Adding Freedoom to the installer itself will unnecessarily increase the size of the distribution - not everyone will actually NEED an IWAD to play - some already have their retail copies of Doom 2 - whether legit or not. This is an example of cost vs benefit where there is no real gain.
To add to the previous point - including Freedoom will also unnecessarily increase the workload of the person who prepares release archives, as well, because then Freedoom will have to be downloaded to their computer and re-uploaded a multiple number of times depending on how many archives they need to post that need it. This increases preparation time for a release substantially.
Also, an included Freedoom IWAD will also become outdated very easily and quickly - this kind of interferes with the Freedoom's authors' abilities to keep it updated to the community as a whole if we offer old versions.
Additionally, Freedoom is distributed with drastically different licensing than Skulltag itself - as the Freedoom project cannot directly sponsor ZDoom and its children (which include Skulltag), it makes no sense to include it directly in Skulltag as well. The fact that Skulltag supports it (and even directly recommends it!) should be far more than enough for people to get it on their own, if they want it.
For these 5 reasons, I am denying this suggestion.
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