[Mageia-dev] RFC: Improvements for ioquake3 package and related games

[Olivier Blin]

Juan Luis Baptiste <juancho at mageia.org> writes:

> As a FPS game lover, I do play a lot of ioquake3's derived games and
> want to improve the support of them in Mageia. Fedora has an ioquake3
> package which support several Quake III derived games with proprietary
> license data. This are the games supported by this package:
> - Official Quake III demo
> - Urban Terror
> - World Of Padman
>
> The ioquake3 package creates a sub package for ioquake3 and each of
> the supported games, and each of this packages include a script to
> auto-download the proprietary license game data at first run of the
> game using the autodownloader program. When any of the games listed
> above is run, a window will popup displaying the game license and upon
> agreeing on it, the script will download the game data from a
> predefined list of mirrors and install it in the proper place.

Why not just package the proprietary data in non-free?

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Olivier Blin - blino