On Thu, 8 Jun 2023 11:41:04 +0100 Felipe wrote: > I guess the vast majority of those games are non-free. And I think this > reflects a lost opportunity to educate all those enthusiastic game > developers about software freedom. > > Perhaps the ScummVM project maintainers > themselves would like the idea of coordinating an official campaign to > encourage free licensing on fan-games created by their users.
not to be a wet blanket, but the scope of this suggestion is nearly total, well beyond ScummVM and its fan games - in general, games are not well-licensed - one may call it endemic to gamer culture (visual artists and musicians also) - without exaggeration, i guess that almost _every_ game you could find, libre or not, will have some files which are licensed poorly or not at all it is a fine suggestion; but i would expand that to: "an official campaign to encourage free licensing on ALL games created by ALL game devs" - ScummVM is surely among the least popular game engines today, and those retro games are barely interesting to modern gamers - to focus on ScummVM, would be nary a dewdrop in the ocean
