[freeciv-data] Re: [Freeciv-Dev] Re: fascism patch

[Mathias Hasselmann <Mathias.Hasselmann@xxxxxx>]

Tomasz Wegrzanowski wrote:
> 
> On Sun, Jul 30, 2000 at 05:04:31PM +0200, Reinier Post wrote:
> > We agree on the arguments!
> 
> Not necesarily.
> 
> Some people claim that freeciv would be illegal in .de,
> but as they haven't shown any precedence, I think these
> claims are plainly bogus.

Tomasz you should read Dirk Stoecker's posting (from Sat, 16:04)
again. He translated the according German law. §86a/2 clearly
shows the problem.

> > We also seem to agree on the resolution, which is
> > to offer the Nazis separately from the main Freeciv distribtion.
> 
> There is one more reason why I don't agree with this exclusion.
> 
> Flags aren't diffed well in curent scheme (and would diff even worse with
> binary flagset format), so every time new flag wil be added to freeciv,
> Nazi.patch will have to be remade. If you can find nice scheme one
> can add this flag to any flagset, exclusion will be ok.

Well - one solution could be inclusion of the of the flags
into the nation.rulesets. The xpm format shows how this can
be done with pure ascii data.

Another solution would be using ImageMagick for image "patching".
(Have a look into "man combine" for details.)

Ciao
Mathias
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