Hi ng0, I believe the long-term goal is to replace non-free data too, as OpenTTD did. But this will probably take a while. By the way Ludo, Parabola has packaged OpenMW too. OpenRCT2 is also mentioned in a list of games by them (second link). https://www.parabola.nu/packages/libre/x86_64/openmw/ https://wiki.parabola.nu/List_of_Applications/Games I also found this thread that confirms no proprietary code is needed. https://www.reddit.com/r/rct/comments/57nsez/openrct2_no_longer_uses_any_code_from_the/ On 2017-10-13 13:43, ng0 wrote: > Rutger Helling transcribed 5.3K bytes: > >> Hey Ludo, >> >> I think it makes sense to add it, but have it be the responsibility of >> the user to provide the assets, since these files can never be bundled >> in Guix. Maybe it should explicitly mention that. >> >> Note that Guix already has a similar situation with an accepted package, >> OpenMW. OpenMW also does nothing without the original game's assets. >> Since that got accepted I figured it made sense to add this package. >> >> OpenMW seems to have been accepted in Debian too: >> https://packages.debian.org/sid/openmw. >> >> For reference, here's the list of required assets for OpenRCT2: >> https://github.com/OpenRCT2/OpenRCT2/wiki/Required-RCT2-files. >> >> Personally I think it makes sense to provide libre engine replacements >> for games, to motivate users to use those instead of running proprietary >> code. The FSF directory even explicitly mentions OpenMW for example: >> https://directory.fsf.org/wiki/OpenMW. > > Additionally: Do you know if an upstream bug report already exists on > replacing the original data requirements? As much as I liked RCT2 back > then - and I still have the disks - it would be pretty cool to see a > full re-implementation with original new art! > > On 2017-10-13 08:50, ludo@gnu.org wrote: > > Hi Rutger, > > Rutger Helling skribis: > > From 12255f73d23a078fc2da099f22564e20cf3c69cc Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 > From: Rutger Helling > Date: Thu, 12 Oct 2017 10:22:27 +0200 > Subject: [PATCH] gnu: games: Add openrct2. > > * gnu/packages/games.scm (openrct2): New variable. > The patch LGTM. However, when starting the program, it says that it > needs files (supposedly artwork) from the original RollerCoaster > Tycoon 2 and exits immediately. > > That makes the package useless in the absence of these presumably > non-free files. > > Looking at > , > I think we cannot really consider these files to be non-functional data > because the software doesn't do anything if they are missing. So I > wonder whether it makes sense to include it in Guix as-is. > > WDYT? Do you know what Debian or other free distros do? > > Thank you, > Ludo'.