From: ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès)
To: Adonay Felipe Nogueira <adfeno@hyperbola.info>
Cc: 28794@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: [bug#28794] [PATCH] gnu: games: Add openrct2.
Date: Mon, 16 Oct 2017 09:40:24 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87zi8rh76f.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87infg6296.fsf@hyperbola.info> (Adonay Felipe Nogueira's message of "Sun, 15 Oct 2017 10:09:57 -0200")
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’.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-10-16 7:41 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 [this message]
2017-10-26 12:16 ` Adonay Felipe Nogueira
2017-10-14 14:45 ` bug#28794: " Ludovic Courtès
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