From: Adonay Felipe Nogueira <adfeno@hyperbola.info>
To: 28794@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: [bug#28794] [PATCH] gnu: games: Add openrct2.
Date: Thu, 26 Oct 2017 10:16:10 -0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87tvymrto5.fsf@hyperbola.info> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87zi8rh76f.fsf@gnu.org> ("Ludovic \=\?utf-8\?Q\?Court\=C3\=A8s\=22'\?\= \=\?utf-8\?Q\?s\?\= message of "Mon, 16 Oct 2017 09:40:24 +0200")
I don't know which type of "data" is missing in OpenRCT2, but if one
wants to be specific to non-functional data, something along the lines
of:
"Can't find 'OpenRCT2 non-functional data. Please provide one. It's
recommended to be at least shareable."
Or for general "data" either one of:
- "Can't find 'OpenRCT2 data. Please provide one. It's recommended to be
free/libre (as in freedom, not price)." Free/libre culture activists
will love this one. ;)
- "Can't find 'OpenRCT2 functional data. Please provide one. It's
recommended to be free/libre (as in freedom, not price).
Can't find 'OpenRCT2 non-functional data. Please provide one. It's
recommended to be at least shareable." Two messages here. The logic
here is to split the types of data.
I wish I could have time to make the patch right now, but I have my
bachelor graduation paper/work to do right now.
Off-topic: the work is about the importance of free/libre software
*philosophy* to university management and teaching-learning
process. Work is being done at [1], if you want to contribute see [2].
[1] <https://notabug.org/adfeno/Trabalho_sobre_gestao_universitaria>.
[2] Copyright will have to be assigned to me, but I will at least give
detailed mention of the contributions in the "thanks"/greetings
part/page of the work.
ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès) writes:
> Hi Adonay,
>
> Adonay Felipe Nogueira <adfeno@hyperbola.info> skribis:
>
>> One of the bigger problems I find with such projects that aim to provide
>> an "engine" for running such games is that there doesn't seem to have an
>> effort to make the other "data" replacement. Most projects start only
>> with engine replacements and don't have a taskforce to provide
>> free/libre "data" replacement.
>
> Clearly the raison d’être of a project like this one is to provide a
> free replacement of the software. So we cannot blame people behind it
> for not doing enough, even though I share your concern.
>
> As for artwork, Rutger mentioned that people behind OpenRCT2 are willing
> to provide free artwork eventually. I can imagine that this is more
> “difficult” in that it’s a completely different job.
>
>> Now, it's true that if it's free/libre software, it might be possible to
>> add it to some free/libre distro. But the challenge is that these
>> projects seem to do little effort to not recommend non-free functional
>> data or non-shareable non-functional data. Such that even the software
>> itself directly tells something along the lines of "this is used to run
>> Some Non Free Game", instead of using a message like "please specify a
>> [insert data pack standard abbreviation here] file", so perhaps it must
>> be patched to remove the first messages?
>
> Sure. Do you have any specific message in mind?
>
> Thanks,
> Ludo’.
>
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-10-26 12:17 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-10-12 8:32 [bug#28794] [PATCH] gnu: games: Add openrct2 Rutger Helling
2017-10-13 8:50 ` Ludovic Courtès
2017-10-13 10:16 ` Rutger Helling
2017-10-13 11:43 ` ng0
2017-10-13 12:18 ` Rutger Helling
2017-10-15 12:09 ` Adonay Felipe Nogueira
2017-10-16 7:40 ` Ludovic Courtès
2017-10-26 12:16 ` Adonay Felipe Nogueira [this message]
2017-10-14 14:45 ` bug#28794: " Ludovic Courtès
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