On Sat, Feb 26, 2011 at 6:53 AM, Gary Wright <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 25, 2011 at 5:19 PM, Loui Chang <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Fri 25 Feb 2011 16:31 +0100, Cédric Girard wrote: > >> The package minecraft-data [1] is supposed to provide game data for > >> Minecraft. This package is outdated, orphaned and does not comply with > the > >> game license [2] (hosting of original game content). > >> > >> Please delete it. Thanks. > >> > >> [1] http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=40928 > >> [2] http://www.minecraft.net/copyright.jsp > > > > Just for reference: a PKGBUILD does not actually distribute the data, so > > it would be completely valid to have it in the AUR. > > > > For example the acroread license doesn't allow redistribution, but that > > doesn't disallow writing a script (PKGBUILD) for automatically fetching > > it from Adobe and installing it yourself. > > From the Minecraft copyright page: > <quote> > > The one major rule: > Do not distribute anything I've made. This includes the client and the > server software for the game. This also includes modified versions of > anything I've made. > > In order to maintain control of the project, I need all game downloads > to come from a single central source. I hope you understand. > > </quote> > > I didn't get a chance to read the PKGBUILD, but as long as the source > was http://www.minecraft.net/download/minecraft.jar then I don't think > he'd have a problem with it. It's not like its usable unless you > purchase a login anyway. > I know what a PKGBUILD is. :p The data was hosted on another site. Which is completely different from this package [1] which just download the whole game from the official site. [1] http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=39434 -- Cédric Girard
