On Mon, 12 Jun 2023 21:53:12 -0400 Ruben Rodriguez <ru...@gnu.org> wrote:
> On 4/25/23 21:58, bill-auger wrote: > > yes, that the game engine is libre; but the games mentioned in the > > OP all have the "no-selling" license > > > > just to note that those four games are the only known to exist > > which are not totally proprietary - without those, distros would > > likely stop distributing the game engine also; so its a "package > > deal" really > > I'm late to this discussion, but I'd like to point out that there is > at least one GPL game for scummvm: http://www.ucw.cz/draci-historie/ Thanks a lot, before I tried with Mystery House (Public domain), but I didn't manage to extract the files. Here draci-historie has source code, and a cleaned up source zip, etc. Though we might need, starting from the source code, to find a way to run it in ScummVM to make sure that it has no nonfree dependencies (like nonfree compilers, nonfree tools to make an image that runs in ScummVM, etc). > On the topic of the games with the "may distribute it in aggregate > [...] commercial software distribution", those are under a badly > written but sufficiently free license. This position is backed by > this similar case: > > https://www.gnu.org/licenses/license-list.html#SILOFL Thanks a lot. So now I'll need to look into the game archives. Denis.
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