Re: Please advise if fheroes2 is suitable for non-free?

[Dmitry Smirnov <onlyjob@member.fsf.org>]

Thanks Bas,

Indeed game files are not distributable at all.

I'm just wondering to what extent we can tolerate DFSG incompatible licenses 
in non-free, like non-commercial license of fheroes2.

Splitting AI to separate package is not feasible for this game and building 
without AI, although technically possible, makes the game nearly worthless.

I'm glad to know it may be suitable for non-free as it is.

Cheers,
Dmitry.

On Mon, 12 Mar 2012 16:27:33 Bas Wijnen wrote:
> I only looked at the bug page, so the following may not be accurate.
> In particular, I didn't read any of the licenses.
> 
> I'd say:
> - The game engine is GPL, so it is free.
> - It is unusable without the game files from CD, and possibly without
> the AI, both of which are non-free.
> 
> This means that the engine can be in contrib until a free replacement
> for the game files is made. The AI must be in non-free. The CD files
> are probably not distributable at all by us.
> 
> If the the engine and the AI are too entangled to split, the
> combination should of course be in non-free.
> 
> Thanks,
> Bas