Re: [libreplanet-discuss] The dangers of repository deletion

[Alexander Berntsen]

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On 13/04/16 18:45, Pen-Yuan Hsing wrote:
> Old games might be a good starting point, because the copyright
> holder might no longer have an interest in them and might be more
> willing to sell the rights to those games? What do people think?
In my experience, developers of older non-AAA games are just happy to
see their games still being played, in the same way that older indie
musicians are just happy to see their music still being listened to.
They usually don't have anything against sharing, hence the big
"abandonware" scene for games.

But when it comes to source code, they frequently will object to
sharing it on the basis of being ashamed of how amateur the code is.
This is something the free software movement has historically been
aware of, but something we still need to work on: people need to know
that there's nothing shameful about having once been a beginner!
Especially not if the end result has had a big impact on society in
some manner or other. (One should however be ashamed to have
proprietary software circulating upon learn that proprietary software
is a wrongdoing.)

If we can convince developers of defunct -- especially independent
non-AAA -- games to release the source code, it would be fantastic.
But I don't think it's about money for most of them.
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Alexander
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