Non-commercial redistributable game data

[Kevin Kofler]

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?

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.

        Kevin Kofler