Re: Fedora extras and opensource games with shareware datafiles

[seth vidal <skvidal phy duke edu>]

> Erm,
  My name is Seth, not Erm, it's a common misspelling, though. :-D


> The idea was to add an shareware-data rpm for those who don't have the 
> registered version Yes.
> 
> 1) It is not as if sourcecode for the datafiles exist, they are after 
> all data, not Machine instructions. The data can be edited with freely 
> available tools. How does this differ from png's distributed with other 
> programs?
> 
> 2) I thought that oss programs needing closed data/firmware was OK as 
> long as the data/firmware is freely redistributable. Isn't the plan for 
> example to distribute intell wireless firmware in core as soon as it 
> some problems with it not being 100% freely redistributable are fixed.
> 
> If something is good enough for core, then why isn't it good enough for 
> extras?

I think firmware falls under a different category but IANAL. We should
ask the fedora legal folks. Want me to ping at the powers-that-be about
this?

-sv