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Re: request: can somebody please port googleearth-package to fedora?
| From: | Alan Cox <alan-AT-redhat.com> | |
| To: | Development discussions related to Fedora <fedora-devel-list-AT-redhat.com> | |
| Subject: | Re: request: can somebody please port googleearth-package to fedora? | |
| Date: | Fri, 8 Feb 2008 16:09:04 -0500 | |
| Message-ID: | <20080208210904.GA29746@devserv.devel.redhat.com> | |
| Archive-link: | Article, Thread |
On Fri, Feb 08, 2008 at 06:15:36PM +0000, Kevin Kofler wrote: > "Rise of the Triad", the engine has been GPLed, the data is still proprietary > and the game is useless without it. There's this package using autodownloader > and there's rott-registered which requires the commercial data. > > So out of 6 autodownloader users, 5 don't work at all without the non-Free > data. I don't think datasets are that clear cut. There are a lot of tools which are free, useful but don't work without non-free data sets. For example the gnome stock ticker which uses proprietary feeds clear needs to go. And firefox uses google for search which is a proprietary data dependancy ... A better test would be whether it is possible to produce new free data sets for them. Alan -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
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