Talk:Adventure

Releases
I think the released versions and licensing as per the article aren't quite right. Not surprising given how complicated it gets. Here's what I gather: The versioning 2.17-x used in the article are the release versions of bsdgames on Debian which include Adventure as one of the games. Currently that would be on 2.17-29 (2021-10-03) rather than 2.17-15 (2009-02-14) as listed in the article. In reality 2.17.15 is the second to last release of bsdgames on Debian which includes any changes to the release of Adventure, a bugfix, and was released on 2008-04-24. The latest change was in 2.17-24 (2016-04-05) which was simply a renaming in the repository. Adventure itself was not released under a license satisfying today's standards for Free Software simply because the conventions hadn't been established yet. Erik Raymond wrote to Don Woods and got permission to release the code under 2-clause BSD. Technically, this means that it is the first time Adventure was legally released under a Free license and previous versions had incorrect information. I'm putting this in as the release date and version (2.5, 2017-05-15) in the article. Raymond has created his own port to newer infrastructure Open Adventure, which should get an article of its own. It's currently under active development with version 1.11 released 2022-04-14. FacelessLinuxUser (talk) 07:17, 1 June 2022 (CEST)