Non-commercial redistributable game data

[Thorsten Leemhuis]

On 12.05.2010 19:25, 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? [...]

Sure, why not?

It would just be good if all everything is taken care of to prevent
users from running into trouble if they use or have used autodownloader,
but you obviously are thinking about that already.

Cu
knurd