[Mageia-dev] [changelog] [RPM] cauldron core/release sauerbraten-2010_07_28-1.mga2

Fri Dec 9 07:41:59 CET 2011

W dniu 05.12.2011 12:53, Thomas Backlund pisze:
+> 05.12.2011 13:12, Maarten Vanraes skrev:
+>> Op maandag 05 december 2011 11:54:47 schreef Samuel Verschelde:
+>>> Le lundi 5 décembre 2011 11:44:19, Maarten Vanraes a écrit :
+>>>> Op maandag 05 december 2011 11:10:00 schreef Samuel Verschelde:
+>>>>> Le mardi 15 novembre 2011 14:23:00, Johnny A. Solbu a écrit :
+>>>>>> On Tuesday 15 November 2011 11:26, Samuel Verschelde wrote:
+>>>>>>> I don't know if it's still true, but according to the fedora games
+>>>>>>> SIG group sauerbraten will not be packaged there because there are
+>>>>>>> (were?) "Various non commercial use clauses in the data."
+>>>>>>
+>>>>>> According to their homepage, the data (they call it media) is not
+>>>>>> Free Software. http://sauerbraten.org/README.html#license
+>>>>>
+>>>>> So it must be removed from core and submitted to non-free.
+>>>>>
+>>>>> Samuel
+>>>>
+>>>> so the "data" subpackage can be moved to nonfree?
+>>>
+>>> The engine package too, because we can't have a package in core that
+>>> depends on nonfree.
+>>
+>> can't we?
+>>
+>
+> NO.
+>
+> Our policy is that core _must_ be selfcontained.
+So what to do with (game) emulators?
+I just checked that ScummVM is in core and one game is in nonfree.
+>
+>
+>> theorethically, people could make another data packages that is free? 
+>> no? i
+>> mean, if the engine is free, it doesn't really make sense to make it
+>> nonfree... ?
+>>
+>
+> Then _if_ someone actually make a free data package, we can do the split
+>
+> -- 
+> Thomas
+
+