On Thu, Jun 15, 2017 at 11:18:13PM -0000, rugk wrote: > > wonder what Legal's opinion on that would be. > > It worked in Debian. ;) > Basically they did not package the original game files. I think they > are even not included in the upstream project. They just state: "Do > you have a file of the original game?" If yes, you can copy it > somewhere and the game will use it. That's all fine from a legal > point of view. >From a *Fedora* point of view, the longstanding policy is that we don't package software which *requires* non-redistributable bits: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:Guidelines#Packages_which_are_not_useful_without_external_bits (Game engines which are open source and which work with redistributable but non-free content are a different special case.) If this game works with a redistributable content set and is free of other problems, that's a different story. -- Matthew Miller <mattdm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Fedora Project Leader _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to devel-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
