ubuntu-gaming team mailing list archive

[Arc Riley <arcriley@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Since there's many new people on the list, the Copyleft Games Group is
getting established as a legal umbrella and educational resource for
projects - not just Ubuntu, or just Linux, but all copyleft games.  We're
incorporating in the state of New Hampshire as a non-profit educational
organization with the goal of gaining 501(c)(3) recognition.

We have a 3d game engine designed specifically for making it easier to build
copyleft games.  It's cross platform but tuned for Linux with free drivers
and free codecs, based on many of the Gnome libraries, with the purpose of
making copyleft games easier to write.  If anyone's interested in
contributing join us in #PySoy on irc.freenode.net.

Our current development project is refactoring to Vala,
http://live.gnome.org/Vala, which will make PySoy easier to maintain and
enable extensions to be written in any language supporting glib while
providing a high-level Python API.

As per content, this was an early goal for PySoy but has become obvious that
due to differing artistic styles and types of games, content reuse is really
just an issue for creating sequals and spinoffs of a game.  Helping games
projects form viable business models to hire talent seems a better course.
We're not opposed to people being paid for their work, we're only opposed to
restricting player's freedom as part of a business strategy.