Re: How would packaging Steam-proton games be received?

[Josh Marshall <joshua.r.marshall.1991@gmail.com>]

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So a separate channel would work for non-free software?  I know the stuff
is fundamentally gross.  I'd still like to have a better way to get out of
an ecosystem that is basically entirely all non-free software and a
transition to fully free becomes possible.

On Thu, Dec 31, 2020 at 1:56 PM Leo Famulari <leo@famulari.name> wrote:

> On Thu, Dec 31, 2020 at 01:09:06PM -0500, Josh Marshall wrote:
> > One thing I know that I have run into, and have heard so many times over
> > from those on Windows is how unstable or much of a hassle it can be to
> get
> > games to work.  In the last few weeks, I spent ~20 hours just to this
> > hassle myself.  Having everything included as a guix package would go a
> > very long way to resolving these instabilities, kicking most of the
> > problems down to just the kernel and kernel modules which is far more
> > constrained.  This should make it easier to make not Windows more
> > palatable, but AGPL+DRM isn't exactly the most cozy of relationships.
> > Given this, would having these games as packages be permissible?  Perfect
> > being the enemy of the good and all that.
>
> In general, we follow the Free System Distribution Guidelines (FSDG) in
> deciding what is acceptable to include in GNU Guix:
>
> https://www.gnu.org/distros/free-system-distribution-guidelines.en.html
>
> All software must be freely licensed, and support for DRM is not
> permitted.
>
> However, if you have code that is working for you, or you think that
> Guix can improve the situation overall, Guix channels are a
> well-supported way to use Guix while remaining separate from it.
>

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