[APPDB] Remove Steam and GOG from licenses

Rosanne DiMesio dimesio at earthlink.net
Mon May 8 19:14:05 CDT 2017


On Mon, 8 May 2017 19:42:26 -0300
Bruno Jesus <00cpxxx at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Mon, May 8, 2017 at 6:09 PM, Rosanne DiMesio <dimesio at earthlink.net> wrote:
> > Steam and GOG are distribution platforms, not licenses. See bug 42970. Entries already using the mistakenly-added items will have to be manually fixed in the live database.
> 
> What about changing them into a single LICENSE_DIGITAL which would
> encompass all online platforms.

Because that would lump all free and nonfree games on those platforms together in one category, and the whole point of the license field is to distinguish that. 

Tracking the distribution platform isn't a bad idea, but the license field is not the place to do it. 

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Rosanne DiMesio
dimesio at earthlink.net



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