Juan Luis Baptiste <[email protected]> writes: > On Sat, Dec 10, 2011 at 8:51 PM, Olivier Blin <[email protected]> wrote: >> Why not just package the proprietary data in non-free? >> > > Because I'm not sure if all games licenses allow redistribution, I'm > basing my decisions on Fedora gaming policy[1] and why they choose to > not include a game. I'm not sure if they don't have a non-free media > and if that's the reason to use the autodownload feature. Also > autodownloading will save a lot of space in mirrors,as most FPS game > data is around ~700MB per game (UrT 1GB, WoP 800MB, SG 350MB, > Sauerbraten 500MB etc) so we are talking of close to 3GB on just the > games I'm packaging, but if it is ok to include them on non-free, *if* > game data license allows redistribution, then I agree that the > non-free media would be a better solution than autodownloading the > game data. > > [1] http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/SIGs/Games#List_of_games_we_will_NOT_package
Well, we could package the ones that allow redistribution (I guess openarena is one of them). This is needed if one wants to make a live DVD with games, or an install CD/DVD set with game packages that can be installed without a network connection. -- Olivier Blin - blino
