Re: [voidlinux/void-packages] new package: osbuddy (#6691)

Toyam Cox at Mon, 12 Jun 2017 09:25:11 -0700
And this PR adds a lot of artifacts to the repo that surely can be downloaded from elsewhere.
Conor Randall at Mon, 12 Jun 2017 09:41:57 -0700
Its all from the package over at the AUR, which has had no licensing problems and has now become endorsed by the project on their home page. The artifacts could be taken from the aur if that is better?
Toyam Cox at Mon, 12 Jun 2017 11:00:18 -0700
The license still makes me nervous, and is unclear.
Jasu at Mon, 12 Jun 2017 11:01:55 -0700
ibrokemypie, take a look at HikariKnight's Runescape client for Unix. It's GNU licensed and supports both, Runescape 3 and Old School Runescape.
Toyam Cox at Mon, 12 Jun 2017 11:47:50 -0700
@ibrokemypie so where does the AUR license these other files for redistribution?
Jasu at Mon, 12 Jun 2017 12:15:55 -0700
@Vaelatern AUR lists the license as "custom" and downloads the .jar directly from OSBuddy's website. OSBuddy is not open source software and they offer a premium model that has a monthly cost. It's an unofficial, third party client for the game. However, most players prefer OSBuddy as it offers multiple features the official client does not have. I've used the client I linked but I'm not very familiar with the technical side. It's made by a Runescape moderator and is completely open-source and somehow adjusts the official Runescape client to work on Linux. Again, I'm not completely sure how Runescape or the clients work on a technical level but I guess they act like a browser, connecting to the Runescape server, downloading necessary files and running the game.
Conor Randall at Mon, 12 Jun 2017 15:06:17 -0700
I still think having OSBuddy packaged would be a good thing, the more the merrier, so I will contact them and ask permission to redistribute in binary form through XBPS
Jasu at Tue, 13 Jun 2017 01:30:51 -0700
@ibrokemypie, I don't know but it's packaged for other distributions. It seems to be the most ["official"](https://support.runescape.com/hc/en-gb/articles/206659489-Linux-Native-Clients) Linux client for Runescape. If OSBuddy is to be packaged, remember to mark it for the non-free repository as it's closed source software.
Conor Randall at Tue, 13 Jun 2017 21:02:00 -0700
@all going to just leave this until developers get back and update when/if they do. In the mean time, going to do rsu-client since we need a bit of runescape in whatever wrapping :)
Michael Aldridge at Sun, 18 Jun 2017 01:44:13 -0700
@ibrokemypie At this time, the official stance is that the license is iffy at best. If no other maintainer has comments on this in the next 2 days, I'd suggest closing this PR given that we really aren't comfortable merging this at this time.
Toyam Cox at Tue, 20 Jun 2017 08:44:56 -0700
Closed #6691.
Toyam Cox at Tue, 20 Jun 2017 08:44:57 -0700
License is iffy, there are too many random artifacts, and it's nonfree anyway.
Bradley Haggerty at Wed, 05 Jul 2017 22:47:02 +0000 (UTC)
I understand why this was not merged, but can we see a package made for the client mentioned by @Jazqa? It looks like it should be fine. I just found this thread while searching how I can play OSRS on Void.
Conor Randall at Thu, 06 Jul 2017 04:53:43 +0000 (UTC)
@Soundtoxin just need to clean this one up https://github.com/voidlinux/void-packages/pull/6725