Re: [GNU-linux-libre] Adding some scummvm game(s) to the "List of software that does not respect the Free System Distribution Guidelines"

[bill-auger]

On Sun, 11 Jun 2023 04:57:21 -0400 bill-auger wrote:
> there are hundreds game engines - about half of those are freely licensed
> 
> there are plenty of new freely-licensed "retro" games being made

i could add too, that what i wrote previously would have been true 10 years ago
- today, there is a trend toward web-bound javascript, pocket phones, and VR
head-sets - if most game development moves into those areas, i would predict
the result to be a much smaller percentage of games being freely-distributable,
than ever before - software on those platforms is not "distributed" in the
conventional sense - it is downloaded into memory upon use (possibly guarded by
some DRM mechanism), and discarded when the "app" exits