[Dev] Parabola stance on game assets

Josh Branning lovell.joshyyy at gmail.com
Fri Sep 28 02:23:55 GMT 2018


Re. the questions; I was going under the assumption that if it's not OK 
it shouldn't be included in parabola.

On 28/09/18 03:18, pribib wrote:
> Perhaps the following?
>
> 1) OK or NOT OK to include non-free assets. (e.g. Warsow)
>   ... and ...
> 2) OK or NOT OK to provide programs whose primary purpose are to obtain
> non-free assets. (e.g. OpenRA)
>
> 3) OK or NOT OK to provide programs whose primary purpose are to make
> use of non-free assets. (Whether this be importing into a game engine or
> something else, e.g. OpenMW)
>
>
> While a program like wget may be able to "import assets" it should not
> be compared to programs whose primary reason for existence is to import
> non-free assets.
>
>
> On 28/09/18 03:12, Josh Branning wrote:
>>> I strongly urge other developers to make their opinions known as to
>>> where the line should be drawn.
>>
>> Probably a consensus needs to be reached about
>>
>> Whether it's ...
>>
>> 1) OK or NOT OK to include non-free assets.
>>  ... and ...
>> 2) OK or NOT OK to link to non-free assets.
>>
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