fretsonfire for Debian ---------------------- Frets on Fire has a number of ways to acquire songs to play. It has a built in editor and a function to import tracks from the popular Guitar Hero games for the Sony PlayStation 2 (the importer does not yet work with the X-Box version) To play Frets on Fire you will need working sound and an OpenGL-capable graphics card. X must be configured with OpenGL. There are also songs available in the fretsonfire-songs packages. Due to licencing restrictions from the Finnish copyright association (Teosto), Debian cannot ship the songs written by the authors of Frets on Fire. Therefore, the Debian version of Frets on Fire has had the tracks replaced with free ones. Much thanks goes to Carlos Viola Iborra for providing the songs in the fretsonfire-songs-sectoid package under an open source licence. The original tracks can still be downloaded from http://fretsonfire.sourceforge.net and other tracks can be found on the community website http://www.keyboardsonfire.net/. Downloaded tracks should be unzipped into $HOME/.fretsonfire/songs/ The fonts that were originally distributed with the game have been removed: * Font data/title.ttf, copyright by Astigmatic One Eye. * Font data/default.ttf, copyright by 1001 Free Fonts. * Font data/international.ttf, copyright by Bitstream Vera. The game is distributed by upstream in two different tarball files, one containing the precompiled game along with the data and the songs, and the other one containing only the sources. Both the data (excluding the songs and the font files mentioned above) and the program are distributed under the GNU General Public License. -- Matthew Johnson Fri, 11 May 2007 15:08:03 +0100