Hello, again! So, somehow this didn't turned out to be a "damn hippies and their begging for free things" case were Free Software is relegated to the sphere of nonsense. I was talking with Amos Wenger[1], one of the two guys behind Itch.io, and he says he want to "give back to the [Free Software] community" regarding to my proposition of allowing packager maintainers of Free System Distributions to make the Itch app hide non-libre games from the platform, just as we do with non-free software in our software repositories!.
They actually allowed developers to specify which software and asset licenses use their games[2], which makes things easy for the Itch developers and grant our request in pro of software freedom. Hopefully having Itch as an allied will show game developers that is possible to respect user's freedom while living out of their work. As this moment, I want to contact someone at the Free Software Foundation and include them in the conversation with Amos and Corcoran. I'm don't know about all the details necessary to assure that Itch app will not violate its user's freedom by accident or omission, and also because only these two big players can work together and come up with something that will encourage game developers to release their games as Free Software. How can I effectively contact the FSF? [1]: https://github.com/itchio/itch/issues/222 [2]: https://cloud.githubusercontent.com/assets/7998310/11929120/b4e57b5a-a7d8-11e5-841c-a23341e20ea9.png -- 👋 Pax et bonum. Jorge Araya Navarro https://es.gravatar.com/shackra _______________________________________________ Dev mailing list [email protected] https://lists.parabola.nu/mailman/listinfo/dev
