Hi all, I'm currently in the process of packaging abuse for FE. abuse's engine is free, but its content is more problematic, there is a public domain altenrative content set called fRaBs and the shareware data has been released into the public domain (except for the sfx and music). I've mailed the author and copyright holder of the sfx and music if he is willing to release it under a suitable license, lets hope so. But that has got me thinking, replacing the music shouldn't be too hard, as we already have many games packaged under suitable license with some quite ok music. For example trackballs has a -music subpackage with some ok ogg's and raidem too. Raidems are licensed under the Creative Commens By license and trackballs are under GPL. Also i maintain quite a few games which include some ok .mod's and .mid's (sometimes hidden in large package / datafiles, but extractable). Thus it might be worth to build a database with a list of free licensed music for use in games, so that we can add music to games which lack it. Much the same goes for sound effects and for textures. For example we currently cannot distribute tremulous because it contains some non-free textures, if we would have a database with free textures we might be able to find some suitable replacements. In the mean time I'll try mailing the author of those rextures again. So is a free (game) content database a good idea? And if it is then does anyone know some existing (preferably web-based) software to maintain it? And if there is such software is anyone willing to build a website with it for a free content project? I wouldn't mind filling the database (a bit) but I'm not an infrastructure type of person. Regards, Hans _______________________________________________ Fedora-games-list mailing list Fedora-games-list@xxxxxxxxxx http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-games-list
