Desura goes open source as desurium. THoughts and comments?
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This has basically almost 0% relevance on Trisquel for the following reasons:
- We are a free software project, not open source. See: Why Open Source misses the point of Free Software
- According to the article only the client is under a "open source licence." and the art, assets, and server code are still proprietary.
- I presume the software available via this program are all proprietary
- We already have a way to distribute free games. See the games section in our repository.
I'm with SirGrant on this one. A free program that lets you download proprietary programs has no relevance to Trisquel.
The program is even only partially free. The server part is proprietary, and the assets are as well.
Now, let's see:
Semifree client used to connect to a proprietary server to download proprietary games. Sadly, that's how some 'open source' software is. Free software isn't like that, though.
The only reason Desura was released as 'open source' was probably just to attract attention. Companies do this all the time. It's wrong, and yes, I agree that it has no relevance to Trisquel, because it doesn't.
There are GPL lisenced games in Desura.
I am not sure what is the problem if Desura uses non-free software on server side but the client is Free Software. It is not like people would not be allowed to use whatever software they want.
But the assets for the client are still non-free, and Trisquel's goal is 100% free and only recommending free software.
Desura does not do that.
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