[Mageia-dev] [changelog] [RPM] cauldron core/release sauerbraten-2010_07_28-1.mga2

[Thomas Backlund]

05.12.2011 13:12, Maarten Vanraes skrev:
> Op maandag 05 december 2011 11:54:47 schreef Samuel Verschelde:
>> Le lundi 5 décembre 2011 11:44:19, Maarten Vanraes a écrit :
>>> Op maandag 05 december 2011 11:10:00 schreef Samuel Verschelde:
>>>> Le mardi 15 novembre 2011 14:23:00, Johnny A. Solbu a écrit :
>>>>> On Tuesday 15 November 2011 11:26, Samuel Verschelde wrote:
>>>>>> I don't know if it's still true, but according to the fedora games
>>>>>> SIG group sauerbraten will not be packaged there because there are
>>>>>> (were?) "Various non commercial use clauses in the data."
>>>>>
>>>>> According to their homepage, the data (they call it media) is not
>>>>> Free Software. http://sauerbraten.org/README.html#license
>>>>
>>>> So it must be removed from core and submitted to non-free.
>>>>
>>>> Samuel
>>>
>>> so the "data" subpackage can be moved to nonfree?
>>
>> The engine package too, because we can't have a package in core that
>> depends on nonfree.
>
> can't we?
>

NO.

Our policy is that core _must_ be selfcontained.


> theorethically, people could make another data packages that is free? no? i
> mean, if the engine is free, it doesn't really make sense to make it
> nonfree... ?
>

Then _if_ someone actually make a free data package, we can do the split

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Thomas