Op maandag 05 december 2011 16:01:14 schreef Samuel Verschelde: > Le lundi 5 décembre 2011 11:10:00, Samuel Verschelde a écrit : > > Le mardi 15 novembre 2011 14:23:00, Johnny A. Solbu a écrit : > > > On Tuesday 15 November 2011 11:26, Samuel Verschelde wrote: > > > > I don't know if it's still true, but according to the fedora games > > > > SIG group sauerbraten will not be packaged there because there are > > > > (were?) "Various non commercial use clauses in the data." > > > > > > According to their homepage, the data (they call it media) is not Free > > > Software. http://sauerbraten.org/README.html#license > > > > So it must be removed from core and submitted to non-free. > > In fact I'm even not sure we can distribute it at all, for the same reasons > as Fedora's: > - media have various licenses, depending on the contributor (lots of them) > - according to the above readme, some media may even have no license at all > - according to Fedora, some of those licenses restrict commercial use, and > our policy does not allow non-free software with redistribution > restrictions. > > So unless someone digs into the media files, looks at the licences, removes > media files with unclear or too restrictive licenses (and that the game > still works after that), then we must drop it. Otherwise it must go to > non-free. > > Best regards > > Samuel Verschelde
you have a point there... otoh, if it comes to that, you can let the user get their "media" themselves, and still package the engine only. (it's what i do for eduke32)
