[games sig] Downloader for shareware data files for gpl engines such as vavoom

[Bill Nottingham]

Hans de Goede (j.w.r.degoede at hhs.nl) said: 
> >>So does this allow free distributing? AFAIK Yes it does (IANAL)
> >>Is this without restrictions? Well clearly no, the following 
> >>restrictions are made:
> >>-distribution must be free of charge, except normal access fees
> >>-by electronic means only
> >>-distributed only in a compressed format
> >
> >Right now we structure things so people can redistribute
> >any CDs of Core or Extras that they want, or freely *build
> >OSes on top of them*.
> >
> 
> How does this stop redistribution on CD, its normal access fees only, 
> electronic and still an rpm thus compressed or ... ?

Someone building an OS on top of it may not qualify for the
'normal access fees' test.

> >Anything that would require 'oh, you can't include this package
> >XXX in something you base on Fedora' isn't really feasible.
> 
> This isn't really true actually there has been discussion in the past 
> about allowing non-commercial (scientific) software into FE and although 
> it was never allowed, it was never denied either afaik this decision 
> still has to be made in the mean time it seems everyone is acting as if 
> this was denied.
> 
> Also in the past it has been discussed wether we actually want to cater 
> CD creation again no decision was made.

Why would you want to prevent it?

Bill