Christopher Aillon wrote:
On 02/10/2008 02:52 PM, Hans de Goede wrote:
If users want to get non-free items, I would MUCH rather usher them
to the legal way to do so versus the illegal way. Fluendo is
currently the only legal way we can offer for the US and some other
countries.
The same argument could be used for autodownloader, if someone wants
to play quake, I much rather have they use autodl to download a legal
version then use some pirated full version.
I really must say I don't understand how people can have an issue with
autodownloader and at the same time defend codina. To me that is
nothing shirt of hypocritical.
Here's the bottom line:
Is $MEDIAPLAYER usable if the user decides they don't want to download
any codecs with codeina? Yes, because we ship and support vorbis,
theora, flac, wav, etc.
Is $GAME playable if the user decides they don't want to download the
non-free items? If yes, I'm totally fine with the game using
autodownloader. If no, I have a major problem with the game being in
Fedora. In neither case do I have a problem with autodownloader existing.
This is turning into a word game, the real questions are:
1) Is offering the user to download non freely redistributable, but freely
downloadable content to enhance the users experience acceptable?
2) Is offering the user to download non free, but freely downloadable code to
enhance the users experience acceptable?
3) Is pointing the user to a website where it can buy proprietary code (aka
advertising of proprietary code) to enhance the users experience acceptable?
If you don't believe me this are the true questions, lets take vavoom for
example currently installing the vavoom package does not result in getting a
playable game, because the current free dataset we have (freedoom) was designed
for another doom engine derative: prboom. So I could spend some time fixing
freedoom and / or vavoom to work together and the vavoom and all the included
.desktop files launching autodownloader to install doom / heretic / hexen
shareware would all of a sudden be ok?
Likewise, currently the .desktop files (and shell scripts and autodlrc files)
included with vavoom for doom-shareware are not ok, but if I add them to
prboom, which can play the doom shareware datafiles too, they are?
This all sounds rather strange, either such a convient way for end users to
easily install and get a well integrated version of these non freely
redistributable datasets is ok or it isn't.
Regards,
Hans
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