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[weissel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Wolfgang Weisselberg)]

Hi!

Trying to kill the keyboard, thehaas@xxxxxxxxxx produced:
> Pro, etc., because they did some magic to get it to work.  In Germany,
> Doom is illegal/not allowed, so SuSE can't even distribute it, so why
> should they make it so Doom works??

Not illegal, but rated 'adult only', meaning no ads for it are
allowed, you may not have it in a shop where under-18's (legal
age is 18) may see it, etc. You may sell it under the counter,
though. I doubt one could put it on SuSE CD and still make any
ads for the SuSE CD or have it on a shelf somewhere ... IANAL.
(oops, this bricktext was accidental!)

> This is actually been the first major disappointment I have had with SuSE
> Linux.  But I am sympathic, since Doom is not allowed in Germany, so they
> can't distribute it anyway (unless they made a separate Germany CD from
> the rest, which would be dumb)

In a way, they do! The German version has all the nice crypto
stuff which the international version has not - export
restrictions from the US ... But then I don't know how Doom is
rated in other countries.

Oh, there's also xdoom, IIRC. And sdoom has (had) some ...
security problems, as it must be setuid root to run. And there
is DUMB, a doom & Co clone that can read the original maps. 

You may wish to look at 
<A HREF="http://jcomm.uoregon.edu/0.000000E+00stevev/Linux-DOOM-FAQ.html";><A HREF="http://jcomm.uoregon.edu/0.000000E+00stevev/Linux-DOOM-FAQ.html</A">http://jcomm.uoregon.edu/0.000000E+00stevev/Linux-DOOM-FAQ.html</A</A>>
and
<A HREF="http://samba.anu.edu.au/dumb/";><A HREF="http://samba.anu.edu.au/dumb/</A">http://samba.anu.edu.au/dumb/</A</A>>
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