[opensuse-buildservice] Repository for commercial games with FOSS code
Hello fellow packagers ! I was wondering whether it would be a good idea to add a new project for commercial games for which the source code is open. The purpose is to have them integrated with the system (path and library-wise) when they don"t provide packages themselves. Some examples are: - Aquaria - Revenge of the titans - Frogatto - maybe Minecraft one day, as told by its developer. There might be more in the future. The project name could simply be "games:commercial", containing packages with only the source code. One problem is to make it easy for people who bought the games to copy/install the non-free game data. We need some kind of script or GUI application that can locally create a RPM based on the game data and/or original game archive, then install that RPM on the local machine. Another problem is that the only people who can package these games properly are the ones who own them, else they won't be able to test the packages. What do you think ? Vincent Petry -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-buildservice+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-buildservice+help@opensuse.org
On 16/05/11 18:59, Vincent Petry wrote:
Hello fellow packagers !
I was wondering whether it would be a good idea to add a new project for commercial games for which the source code is open.
I think we can have these packages in the main "games" repo. I don't see a lot of advantages of creating a separate one ... -- Best Regards / S pozdravom, Pavol RUSNAK SUSE LINUX, s.r.o openSUSE Boosters Team Lihovarska 1060/12 PGP 0xA6917144 19000 Praha 9 prusnak[at]opensuse.org Czech Republic -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-buildservice+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-buildservice+help@opensuse.org
The problem I would say is that in the games repo it is not clear that these
games are commercial.
If people install them, they might be surprised or frustrated to see they don't
work without game data.
But besides this, I agree that there are not a lot of other advantages.
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De : Pavol Rusnak
Hello fellow packagers !
I was wondering whether it would be a good idea to add a new project for commercial games for which the source code is open.
I think we can have these packages in the main "games" repo. I don't see a lot of advantages of creating a separate one ... -- Best Regards / S pozdravom, Pavol RUSNAK SUSE LINUX, s.r.o openSUSE Boosters Team Lihovarska 1060/12 PGP 0xA6917144 19000 Praha 9 prusnak[at]opensuse.org Czech Republic -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-buildservice+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-buildservice+help@opensuse.org -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-buildservice+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-buildservice+help@opensuse.org
I would prefer to see a clear separation between Free and non-Free software. Please don't mix meat and flies. A game, that cannot run without some other dependency is clearly non-free. -- -Alexey Eromenko "Technologov" -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-buildservice+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-buildservice+help@opensuse.org
On Tue, 2011-05-17 at 08:04 +0100, Vincent Petry wrote:
The problem I would say is that in the games repo it is not clear that these games are commercial.
If people install them, they might be surprised or frustrated to see they don't work without game data.
But besides this, I agree that there are not a lot of other advantages.
This can and should be solved with a LICENSE text popping up, similar to what you get when installing Java, Flash and the likes... A pure packaging issue :) Dominique -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-buildservice+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-buildservice+help@opensuse.org
Thanks for the hint, I will give it a try. :-)
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De : Dimstar / Dominique Leuenberger
The problem I would say is that in the games repo it is not clear that these games are commercial.
If people install them, they might be surprised or frustrated to see they don't
work without game data.
But besides this, I agree that there are not a lot of other advantages.
This can and should be solved with a LICENSE text popping up, similar to what you get when installing Java, Flash and the likes... A pure packaging issue :) Dominique -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-buildservice+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-buildservice+help@opensuse.org -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-buildservice+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-buildservice+help@opensuse.org
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Vincent Petry