Warsow is a REALLY high quality first person shooter thats open source and free. at around 90MB I don't see why it shouldn't be considered for inclusion.
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Matt Desoto wrote:
Warsow is a REALLY high quality first person shooter thats open source and free. at around 90MB I don't see why it shouldn't be considered for inclusion.
Yes, including warsow is a good idea, I've contacted them about the licensing of the datafiles in the past and the may be freely (re)distributed as long as no modificaitions are made. So they are ok for Fedora inclusion.
Unfortunately I've lost the relevant mail, so we will need to ask them again, moreover we will need a packager for this, actually we (the Games SIG) really need some more packagers, there are still many good games which could be packaged, but most of us are handling all the packages we can.
I will happily help / teach anyone with a serious commitment howto create and maintain good packages, so maybe warsow is a good place to start for someone?
Regards,
Hans
2007/11/7, Hans de Goede j.w.r.degoede@hhs.nl:
Unfortunately I've lost the relevant mail, so we will need to ask them again, moreover we will need a packager for this, actually we (the Games SIG) really need some more packagers, there are still many good games which could be packaged, but most of us are handling all the packages we can.
If really nothing stands on the way to include warsow in Fedora, I'd be extremely happy to manage that task. I've already packaged openarena so hopefully it shouldn't be a big problem. Don't know when I find some time to do that though.
Michał Bentkowski wrote:
2007/11/7, Hans de Goede j.w.r.degoede@hhs.nl:
Unfortunately I've lost the relevant mail, so we will need to ask them again, moreover we will need a packager for this, actually we (the Games SIG) really need some more packagers, there are still many good games which could be packaged, but most of us are handling all the packages we can.
If really nothing stands on the way to include warsow in Fedora, I'd be extremely happy to manage that task. I've already packaged openarena so hopefully it shouldn't be a big problem. Don't know when I find some time to do that though.
Well as said, you will have to ask them again for permission to redistribute the data files freely (in unmodified form). Maybe you can suggest a license like Create Commons Attribution No Deratives to them, which does exactly that.
Regards,
Hans
2007/11/7, Hans de Goede j.w.r.degoede@hhs.nl:
Well as said, you will have to ask them again for permission to redistribute the data files freely (in unmodified form). Maybe you can suggest a license like Create Commons Attribution No Deratives to them, which does exactly that.
I've just had a cursory look at warsow's data package and there's such statement in license.txt file:
"Game data files are copyrighted by their respective authors. You may only redistribute the game data in unmodified form unless you have written permission from the copyright owner."
So it seems we don't have to ask for nothing. Warsow is shipped by, for instance, Debian so I think we can trust its developers that all license related things are clarified.
Michał Bentkowski wrote:
2007/11/7, Hans de Goede j.w.r.degoede@hhs.nl:
Well as said, you will have to ask them again for permission to redistribute the data files freely (in unmodified form). Maybe you can suggest a license like Create Commons Attribution No Deratives to them, which does exactly that.
I've just had a cursory look at warsow's data package and there's such statement in license.txt file:
"Game data files are copyrighted by their respective authors. You may only redistribute the game data in unmodified form unless you have written permission from the copyright owner."
So it seems we don't have to ask for nothing.
Well, that text is a bit vague, which is why I asked for clarification in the past, and indeed its fine to distribute, still I believe it would be good to have a mail from upstream (which I had but unfortunately lost) stating that its fine to redistribute it freely as long as its not modified. Anyways I won't make a big problem of this, unless I turn out the one to review it.
Regards,
Hans
Am Mittwoch, den 07.11.2007, 16:20 +0100 schrieb Hans de Goede:
Matt Desoto wrote:
Warsow is a REALLY high quality first person shooter thats open source and free. at around 90MB I don't see why it shouldn't be considered for inclusion.
Yes, including warsow is a good idea, I've contacted them about the licensing of the datafiles in the past and the may be freely (re)distributed as long as no modificaitions are made. So they are ok for Fedora inclusion.
Unfortunately I've lost the relevant mail, so we will need to ask them again, moreover we will need a packager for this, actually we (the Games SIG) really need some more packagers, there are still many good games which could be packaged, but most of us are handling all the packages we can.
I will happily help / teach anyone with a serious commitment howto create and maintain good packages, so maybe warsow is a good place to start for someone?
Regards,
Hans
I would love to learn to build a package. But i am only linux user, no coder or admin, without much expirience. So you would need much patience with me.
Greetings,
Bernd
On Wed, 2007-11-07 at 20:20 +0100, Mailinglisten wrote:
I would love to learn to build a package. But i am only linux user, no coder or admin, without much expirience. So you would need much patience with me.
This is always a good start:
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Docs/Drafts/BuildingPackagesGuide
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