Angband
by Dennis Payne
I was thinking of trying to package Angband. I grabbed the source and a
spec file/patches used by Mageia. I got SDL working but X11 version
doesn't run under wayland. Curses version complained about not finding
a font. Obviously I can work through these but I have a question about
licensing.
Angband is GPL (or the angband license if you prefer). Some items in
the angband tar.gz are not. It explains which ones aren't. Mageia's
patch disables them so they are not installed (at least in theory I
haven't actually confirmed it). Mageia uses a source package of
%{name}-%{version}-libre.tar.xz. I'm guess they may have taken the
angband tar.gz and removed items to create it. Would Fedora require the
same? Can we ship a srpm with non-commercial content like the sounds in
angband?
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Dennis Payne
dulsi(a)identicalsoftware.com
Roon's Raccoon Sprintladder: https://ideas.lego.com/projects/126010
4 years, 6 months
Can we add Commander Genius to the Fedora/RedHat repository?
by Gerhard Stein - gmail
Hi there,
the other day I wrote to Hans de Goede about the game Clonekeen. I
created a fork from that ten years ago which became Clonekeen Plus and
later Commander Genius. Hans de Goede told me to contact the Fedora
Games developers regarding the topic.
I would like to see that game in the Fedora/RedHat Repos since it
supports all the Commander Keen Episodes including Keen Dreams instead
of just the first three. The physics are much improved, more multiplayer
capabilities are included:
http://clonekeenplus.sourceforge.net/
It also has less licensing problems with the game assets you require in
order to play the episodes. CG provides an internal Downloader, similar
to some sort of codec Downloader, so the entire source code is free and
you do not have to worry about special installations patches. CG also
runs without any of these games, telling the user to copy some assets or
let download those. There also is a AUR (I know it is Arch Linux) if
that helps:
https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/commander-genius-git
What are your thoughts? It is possible? I think playing all the Keen
games natively with special effects more features and multiplayer mode
makes the repository provide one more jump'n'run game worth that already
cool distros you release.
Kind Regards
- Gerhard Stein
5 years, 5 months