From tarn.adams@gmail.com Sat Oct 30 00:56:16 2010 Date: Fri, 29 Oct 2010 16:56:15 -0800 From: Tarn Adams To: roconnor@theorem.ca Subject: Re: Dwarf Fortress Redistribution for NixOS Sure, that redistribution is fine. I think I've handled the movie issue for next time now. Thanks for the heads up on that. Tarn On Fri, Oct 29, 2010 at 6:56 AM, wrote: > I'd like to distribute a *slightly* modified version of Dwarf Fortress which > is needed to run it under the NixOS distribution of Linux (see > > > Modification: The interpreter location /lib/ld-linux.so.2 in > lib/Dwarf_Fortress is replaced with the location of ld-linux.so.2 under the > NixOS distribution (which is currently > /nix/store/l8x3fdy1r6zf441vnqa87lzsvxrjbdz9-glibc-2.11.1/lib/ld-linux.so.2 > but might change at a later date to something similar). > > I don't need you to recompile Dwarf Fortress.  I can patch the binary itself > using patchelf.  I just would like your permission to redistrubute this > modified binary. > > Thanks, I'm looking forward to trying out your game and letting other Nix > users try it out too. > > P.S. the inital_movies are open in read/write mode instead of read-only mode > which causes some issues under NixOS because the inital_movies are stored > read-only.  I have a workaround, but you may want to consider opening these > files in read-only mode. > > -- > Russell O'Connor                                       > ``All talk about `theft,''' the general counsel of the American Graphophone > Company wrote, ``is the merest claptrap, for there exists no property in > ideas musical, literary or artistic, except as defined by statute.'' >