>>>>> "HdG" == Hans de Goede <j.w.r.degoede@xxxxxx> writes: HdG> Hi, I had this idea last night, it would be nice to package doom HdG> (and other) gpl game engines, or improved spinoffs such as HdG> vavoom, but they are kinda useless without the shareware HdG> datafiles. The packaging guidelines specifically mention Doom: ---- Shareware Shareware applications are not Open Source code, and are not acceptable for Fedora. However, it is worth noting that some non-executable content exists that is required to make Open Source applications functional. An example of this would be open sourced game engines, such as Doom, Heretic, and Descent. These game engines come with freely distributable shareware gamedata files. In this case, the gamedata files can be packaged and included in Fedora Extras, as long as the files meet the requirements for binary firmware. ---- HdG> Now the shareware files are freely redistributed by a lot of HdG> sites, but nowhere there seems to be a clear license under which HdG> this is done, which makes things kinda dodgy. This seems to be the case for xu4, which is an (open source) engine which plays the Ultima 4 data files. I would like to package it, and the data is available all over (including from Sourceforge, which I understand has significant restrictions on what you can host there). But I can't find any statement that it's OK to distribute the data except for some archived emails. - J< -- fedora-extras-list mailing list fedora-extras-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-extras-list
