I'm a sponsored Fedora packager, who's new to rpmfusion, and undergraduate student (senior) at Johns Hopkins University studying computer science and physics. The reason I'm finally (after using it since Fedora 13) looking into contributing to rpmfusion is:

A few weeks ago, a friend mentioned that Dwarf Fortress (http://www.bay12games.com/dwarves/), a closed-source but free-to-redistribute game, is packaged for Arch Linux. I was surprised because I didn't actually realize DF was free to redistribute, but I checked the license and confirmed that indeed, it is [*].

So I started wondering if this was something we could get into rpmfusion-nonfree. While Dwarf Fortress is *mostly* closed source, the graphics code is open source; the Arch maintainer is tracking changes to the graphics code in a github repository here: https://github.com/svenstaro/dwarf_fortress_unfuck. So the Arch package ( https://www.archlinux.org/packages/community/i686/dwarffortress/ ) compiles the graphics code, removes the bundled libraries, and also includes a .desktop file and launcher script.

Based heavily on the Arch package, I've written an RPM spec file: https://mars.arosser.com/fedora/rpmfusion/dwarffortress.spec. Note that the package only builds for i386, but can be installed on x86_64 just fine.

I guess I have two questions before submitting an actual review request for this:

1. Is this the sort of thing that belongs in rpmfusion-nonfree? Are we able to package this? I believe so, but wanted to check first.

2. How do rpmfusion policies feel about the use of /opt for packages? I know that in Fedora, it's very strongly discouraged. The Arch package drops Dwarf Fortress into /opt/dwarfforrtress; my RPM currently does the same thing. It could be moved elsewhere, but I'm not entirely sure where since there are both binaries and data (so /usr/share/dwarffortress would probably be a bad path, for instance).

Thanks in advance!

Ben Rosser

[*] The full text of the license for DF reads: "Copyright (c) 2002-2012.  All rights are retained by Tarn Adams, save the following:  you may redistribute the binary and accompanying files, unmodified, provided you do so free of charge.  If you'd like to distribute a modified version of the game or portion of the archive and are worried about copyright infringement, please contact Tarn Adams at toadyone@bay12games.com."