Re: Non-commercial redistributable game data

Hi, Jonathan Dieter wrote: > I've noticed a number of games whose content is distributable as long as > it's distributed for free. A few of those games have ended up in Fedora > but use autodownloader to download the game data. > > I really don't like this method because, at least as I understand it, > the game data ends up in the user's home directory. If another user > wants to play the game, they have to redownload the data. > > What is the feasibility of providing -data packages in rpmfusion-nonfree > that would provide the data for said games, so the data could be > installed system-wide? Can autodownloader (cc'ing autodownloader > maintainer) check for game data availability before downloading the data > off the internet? Well all autodownloader using games use a .sh script to launch autodownloader when the data is not present in the expected location, modifying those scripts to check for game-data under say /usr/share/%{name} first should not be a problem. Patches for that (together with rpmfusion packages of the data, so that the whole can be tested together) would definitely be welcome. I'm also always open to co-maintainers for the Fedora packages in question.