[Freeciv-Dev] Re: Did someone reply to the letter from heise::c't yet?

[Peter Schaefer <peter.schaefer@xxxxxxxxx>]

I told them about the GPL and suggested that they include sourcecode
to get the point across.

On 5/18/05, Billy Tallis <wtallis@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On 5/18/05, Peter Schaefer <peter.schaefer@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > The email ended up in my 'spam' box ..
> > German magazine wanting to include freeciv on a CD ..
> >
> > They want "permission", which is silly and inappropriate since they
> > got permission already to distribute it, but on the terms of the GPL
> > ..
> >
> > They also ask what the memory requirements of freeciv are ..
> > I suppose even 64M should work, shouldn't it ..
> >
> > --Peter
> >
> >
> I  suppose that somebody should tell them to read the GPL. This is
> something that freeciv shouldn't be excluded from, so they deserve a
> response.
> As for memory requirements, 64M is more than enough for the GTK2
> client on fedora (and that is with a 200Mhz cpu). If the binaries they
> distribute are the gtk2 windows binaries, any computer that can handle
> XP/2000 should be able to handle freeciv, at least for the client.
> 
>