Hi Denis, Am Mittwoch, dem 12.04.2023 um 01:52 +0200 schrieb Denis 'GNUtoo' Carikli: > Hi, > > 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. Th > > 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. We have been aware of this for about half a year now (see the thread in guix-devel following [1]), but as other FSDG-abiding distributions still include these games (or at least did back then) we postponed their removal.
Cheers PS: Tobias, do you have a reply from the licensing team? [1] <48ce733acba20030aba9eba1a45e18a805cfcf73.ca...@gmail.com>