Re: [Savannah-hackers] savannah.gnu.org: submission of Human Beings

[Jaime E . Villate]

On Mon, Mar 11, 2002 at 06:02:40AM -0500, address@hidden wrote:
> A package was submitted to savannah.gnu.org.
> This mail was sent to address@hidden, address@hidden
> 
> Guillaume Cottenceau <address@hidden> described the package as follows:
> License: gpl
> Other License: 
> Package: Human Beings
> System name: human-beings
> This package does NOT want to apply for inclusion in the GNU project
> 
> This project aims at building a civilization/humanity simulator, borrowing 
> good ideas from proprietary games Civilization from Microprose, 
> Dune2/Starcraft from Blizzard and SimCity from Electronic Arts, but also 
> inventing a few new and innovative rules/principles.
>  The game will be a realtime simulation with batiments and units, using a
> graphical user-interface (using SDL), with AI support and network play. It
> will most probably use a higher-level compiled language such as OCaml
> (that\'s why I don\'t ask to be included in the GNU project, since basically
> only C and Guile are GNU-blessed languages).

There are important GNU projects coded in Python, C++, Java and some other
languages; C/Guile are recommended but not the only accepted languages.

> You can read the <a 
> href=\"http://people.mandrakesoft.com/~gc/hb-preliminary.html\";>preliminary 
> game principles</a>, currently under thinking.
> 
> It does not exist yet but I\'m working on it.

Approved. Please remember your commitment to avoid any dependencies on
proprietary software; and please apply the GPL as explained in
http://www.gnu.org/gpl-howto.html

Regards,
Jaime