[Mageia-dev] RFC: Improvements for ioquake3 package and related games

Sun Dec 11 14:50:39 CET 2011

Juan Luis Baptiste <juancho at mageia.org> writes:
+
+> On Sat, Dec 10, 2011 at 8:51 PM, Olivier Blin <mageia at blino.org> wrote:
+>> Why not just package the proprietary data in non-free?
+>>
+>
+> Because I'm not sure if all games licenses allow redistribution, I'm
+> basing my decisions on Fedora gaming policy[1] and why they choose to
+> not include a game. I'm not sure if they don't have a non-free media
+> and if that's the reason to use the autodownload feature. Also
+> autodownloading will save a lot of space in mirrors,as most FPS game
+> data is around ~700MB per game (UrT 1GB, WoP 800MB, SG 350MB,
+> Sauerbraten 500MB etc) so we are talking of close to 3GB on just the
+> games I'm packaging, but if it is ok to include them on non-free, *if*
+> game data license allows redistribution, then I agree that the
+> non-free media would be a better solution than autodownloading the
+> game data.
+>
+> [1] http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/SIGs/Games#List_of_games_we_will_NOT_package
+
+Well, we could package the ones that allow redistribution (I guess
+openarena is one of them). This is needed if one wants to make a live
+DVD with games, or an install CD/DVD set with game packages that can be
+installed without a network connection.
+
+-- 
+Olivier Blin - blino
+