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.
Regards,
Hans