Re: Fedora extras and opensource games with shareware datafiles

[seth vidal <skvidal phy duke edu>]

On Wed, 2005-03-30 at 10:10 +0200, Hans de Goede wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Can opensourced game-engines such as doom, heretic and descent which 
> come with freely distributable shareware gamedata files, be a part of 
> Fedora extras?
> 
> I would like to package and maintain a number of these as part of Fedora 
> extras.
> 
> For example take a look at my d1x packaging attempt at:
> http://jwrdegoede.freesuperhost.com/
> 

If you're going to include the shareware parts in the games I'd say no.

They don't meet the FOSS requirements of fedora.

If you're going to have the gamedata files elsewhere then sure.

-sv