The developers have just decided to also open up all the media files (
https://github.com/Soldat/base) by releasing them under the CC BY 4.0!
Looks like Soldat now really is free software! This is very good news.
I remember this game from years ago, and it's pretty neat, and I played it A LOT. So this definitely means a lot to me!
This first obvious step would be to post this game to various Linux distributions for the repositories. I'm not very fimiliar with the process, so if any of you have contacts to package maintainers, maybe give them a hint about Soldat.
I have not tested yet how “compilable” this game is, I need to try out …