Re: FSDG issues of SCUMMVM-based games

[Denis 'GNUtoo' Carikli]

On Tue, 20 Jun 2023 06:30:26 +0200
Liliana Marie Prikler <liliana.prikler@gmail.com> wrote:
> Note, that this discussion started IIRC a year ago and we have
> practically known about actually existing FSDG violations since then. 
> My approach here is quite simple and pragmatic: Remove the games which
> obviously violate the FSDG (that is all the games currently depending
> on ScummVM as far as I know), but keep ScummVM for now to allow folks
> to experiment.  If in some one to five years we still find no
> practical way of using ScummVM with only free software, that might be
> a reason to remove it then.
> 
> WDYT?
That looks perfectly fine to me. It leaves some time to people to try to
fix ScummVM itself in a better way (like by packaging games built from
source like Draci Historiae, removing the checksums, making a hello
world, etc), and at the end ScummVM would get removed if it's not fixed.

Denis.

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