Hello, Denis 'GNUtoo' Carikli <[email protected]> writes: > > The license of all these packages have that inside: >> 3) You may not charge a fee for the game itself. This includes >> reselling the game as an individual item. > > And the FSDG has that: >> Non-functional Data >> ------------------- >> Data that isn't functional, that doesn't do a practical job, is more >> of an adornment to the system's software than a part of it. Thus, we >> don't insist on the free license criteria for non-functional data. It >> can be included in a free system distribution as long as its license >> gives you permission to copy and redistribute, both for commercial >> and non-commercial purposes. For example, some game engines released >> under the GNU GPL have accompanying game information—a fictional >> world map, game graphics, and so on—released under such a >> verbatim-distribution license. This kind of data can be part of a >> free system distribution, even though its license does not qualify as >> free, because it is non-functional. > > So unfortunately here we need to remove these games.
This report seems to appears from time to time in free GNU/Linux distributions throughout the years. In the license you mention, you omitted the second point : "you may charge a reasonable copying fee for this archive, and may distribute it in aggregate as part of a larger and possibly commercial software distribution". In other words, I think the non-commercial restriction is moot in our situation. Consequently, it seems okay to keep these games in Guix. Debian, Trisquel, PureOS distributions seem to agree, FWIW. I understand our opinions may differ here, but I do think software freedom is not at stake when including drascula and friends in Guix. Regards, -- Nicolas Goaziou
