From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:55306) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1e401J-0003zq-G3 for guix-patches@gnu.org; Mon, 16 Oct 2017 03:41:06 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1e401G-0007oY-DQ for guix-patches@gnu.org; Mon, 16 Oct 2017 03:41:05 -0400 Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.43]:33728) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1e401G-0007oS-9J for guix-patches@gnu.org; Mon, 16 Oct 2017 03:41:02 -0400 Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1e401F-0007qa-T3 for guix-patches@gnu.org; Mon, 16 Oct 2017 03:41:01 -0400 Subject: [bug#28794] [PATCH] gnu: games: Add openrct2. Resent-Message-ID: From: ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic =?UTF-8?Q?Court=C3=A8s?=) References: <87d15rqvna.fsf@gnu.org> <20171013114345.xyguob5nky7vluxr@abyayala> <87infg6296.fsf@hyperbola.info> Date: Mon, 16 Oct 2017 09:40:24 +0200 In-Reply-To: <87infg6296.fsf@hyperbola.info> (Adonay Felipe Nogueira's message of "Sun, 15 Oct 2017 10:09:57 -0200") Message-ID: <87zi8rh76f.fsf@gnu.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: guix-patches-bounces+kyle=kyleam.com@gnu.org Sender: "Guix-patches" To: Adonay Felipe Nogueira Cc: 28794@debbugs.gnu.org Hi Adonay, Adonay Felipe Nogueira 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=E2=80=99=C3=AAtre of a project like this one is to pro= vide 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 =E2=80=9Cdifficult=E2=80=9D in that it=E2=80=99s 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=E2=80=99.