Fedora games spin: feedback

[Rahul Sundaram]

Hans de Goede wrote:
> Rahul Sundaram wrote:
>> Ric Moore wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> I vote for warzone2100. I'm addicted to it. I did have some problems
>>> with the rpm, so I grabbed the tar file and built it. That seemed to
>>> work, so there must be some minor glitch in the rpm file. sauerbraten is
>>> also a high quality game to consider. It's a quake like shooter. Ric
>>
>> Sauerbraten game content has a commercial use restriction that 
>> prevents it from being included in Fedora. It has been explicitly 
>> listed in the "will not package" list though third party repos can and 
>> probably will package this. Maybe we can package a subset and use the 
>> autodownloader to pull in more content optionally.
>>
>> http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/SIGs/Games
>>
>> I saw claims in the SMC website that they have cleaned up their 
>> content in recent versions. Game similarity by itself shouldn't 
>> prevent a game from being included. 
> 
> Similarity shouldn't but SMC has all the original artwork redrawn, it is 
> not new artwork, remember those semi transparent papers you used in your 
> early school days, which you would lay over a drawing and then copy the 
> drawing like that? SMC is very much like that.
> 
> I just took a look and they have finally replaced the main character by 
> something original. but the enemies and the level blocks still look like 
> straight copies (they are not they are redrawn, but is that enough to 
> claim its an original work?)
> 
> We could ask Spot to be sure.

Spot, can you look into this?

Rahul