Re: Non-commercial redistributable game data
On Sun, 2010-05-16 at 18:14 +0530, Rahul Sundaram wrote:
On 05/16/2010 06:10 PM, Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski
wrote:
> On Sunday, 16 May 2010 at 02:02, Kevin Kofler wrote:
> [...]
>
>> IMHO the whole affected games should move to RPM Fusion Nonfree and
>> autodownloader should be removed from Fedora.
>>
>> I really don't see why we're bypassing Fedora's licensing policies
in this
>> broken way when we could just offer a package that works out of the box in
>> RPM Fusion Nonfree where it belongs.
>>
> +1. If there's free game data available in the future, the game can be always
> moved back to Fedora.
>
I am in agreement as well. The autodownloader model provides perhaps
more exposure to the games but at the cost of every user having to
download the same data repeatedly.
While I agree the the sentiment, the problem is that the maintainers of
these games would have to agree to drop them in Fedora and then either
package them themselves in RPM Fusion or allow others to package them.
I'm not sure we'll get the necessary buy-in from them.
On the other hand, after looking at how some of the games use
autodownloader, we will still have to have Fedora maintainer buy-in to
put just the game data in RPM Fusion.
My main desire is to get these games to a point where I can install them
on our local network without requiring people to download 100's of MB of
data off of the Internet, so any solution that makes that work will work
for me.
Jonathan
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