Packaging Request #1975
[ryzom] Free game to package
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From what I have gathered, Ryzom has both free software and free culture which would make it a viable game to package for this distribution.
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Updated by ani over 5 years ago
I just learnt that Ryzom is dual licensed with GNU AGPL and proprietary licensing, meaning that it is proprietary software. Thus you can close this ticket.
Updated by ani over 5 years ago
Further discussion regarding licensing yields that Ryzom Core is not proprietary.
Log: https://pastebin.com/v5mDVuVF
Ryzom Core could be packaged.
Updated by freemor over 5 years ago
- File conversation.txt conversation.txt added
De-pastebin'ing the conversation
Updated by ani over 5 years ago
In my opinion. Ryzom is "dual licensed" meaning that it has one free license and one proprietary license. Ryzom Core is entirely GNU AGPL so it's a candidate.
Ryzom Core seem to link to a proprietary server service that runs a game world. If it relies heavily on connecting to this world in hard coded linking and no possibility to change this into linking to a free world service (free culture, free software, etc), then don't package it.
If you can make a simple script to strip the proprietary linking I would say go ahead, package it using that script to strip it off.
Updated by freemor over 5 years ago
- Status changed from open to not-a-bug
Marking as Invalid (Closing) by request of the OP as free client (core) will not currently function without talking to a proprietary world.
Currently there are no free Worlds
Creating a world currently requires using non-free software (3dmax)
Updated by ani over 5 years ago
Yeah that pretty much makes the software unusable even if you did a script to link to a free world since it would be nothing to play on.