Hi,

I'm looking for a GPL (or compatible) .pak distribution which can be included in the Debian package of ezQuake.

http://www.debian.org/social_contract#guidelines
also would inclusion in non-free be a secondary goal?

Currently there is no complete free pak for Quake I that doesn't suck. You can, however, include a shell script which will download the shareware distribution and extract pak0.pak from it, like nQuake does: http://nquake.com/download_linux.html

Are there completely free paks that do suck? Maybe they can be improved so they reach a non-suckage-state?

There's OpenQuartz and it's pathetic

Well, I guess you could find quality (and even reasonably faithful) graphics and models for just about anything but player.mdl and monsters.

But most of those aren't GPL.

What makes you think this is any sort of problem?


In this particular case there is a different restriction:
All the works must be under lincenses which are Debian-compatible. What this means is explained under the link ruskie pasted here. It defines general rules which the licenses of all the data must satisfy. That is not necessarily GPL, that is not even necessarily GPL-compatible.

Exactly. And work like the Quake Retexturing Project does seem to have a license that is Debian compatible. From what I can see their license looks a lot like the MIT license or the Creative Commons 3.0 BY-SA.