Redistribution or Bringing it over to the other side...

[CervAnteZ]

Hi all,

I am a Linux user and avid adventure gamer and recently switched to a linux flavor called foresight linux. This particular distribution is heavyly created by its own community by creating repositories and sharing applications, games and <anyotherkindofsoftware here>.
Being a huge fan of what you all created i decided, that if its generally accepted to redistribute content here on this portal, to create an AGS Repository on rpath.org, where all those games, that can be made to work inside Linux (with those binaries availlable) can be shared with the foresight linux community.
I know generally redistribution is not that much of a deal, especially as i am not planning on selling anything, but as i would have to modify the archives (rename the binary, add ags-setup, patches.dat and the interpreter ags itself) i thought asking the community itself might not be that much of a bad idea.
So, how about it?

CervAnteZ

[Rolf]

Silly Windows of the boy is not a use!  We all!

[Layabout]

What the hell Rolf, that makes no sense at all...

Don Quioxte, I think it would be best to ask the authors permission to redistribute their games, as most authors choose to include a statement in the readme along the lines of (if you redistribute this game, you are not allowed to change the contents of the zip) To use an ags game in Linux, the game must be either run in wine or something similar, or you get the ags game interpretor linux binaries (i think). To redistribute, you would include the game interpretor binaries, and change the zip format, thus changing the content.

Always best to get permission.

And afaik, plugins dont work with the linux interpretor.

Cheers