Discuss possible new repo policy of excluding servers based on non-compliance with emulator policies

[jovrtn]

Per this discussion on the ACE Discord: https://discord.com/channels/261242462972936192/261242462972936192/1187137558149345301

For example, if emulators determine that pay-to-play or soliciting donations violate their terms, we would reject PRs for those servers and remove them from the current list.

[amoeba]

Reposting from Discord:

I would like any emulator software to have a clear statement about what is considered fair use (including talking about accepting money) and then I'd like the serverslist project to follow each software project's terms and accept/reject servers based on that.

[Splatterghast]

So as the launcher is emulator agnostic, removing based upon the policy of one team seems highly exclusive.

[Splatterghast]

If the developer of the launcher wants to implement such a policy upon the launcher, then it would be in their purview.

[amoeba]

So as the launcher is emulator agnostic,

There are three contemporary launcher efforts and AFAIK none of them make any claims like this.

removing based upon the policy of one team seems highly exclusive.

Members of this project are from other teams, including server emulator projects, game launchers, and third-party services. If you think more people should be added to this project to make sure this remains a community effort, I think that'd be fine.

[Splatterghast]

I think that each emu should have the right to police the public availability of servers running their codebase. ACE can remove ACE servers, GDLE can remove GDLE servers, etc. I don't believe there should be any cross pollination so GDLE can't weigh in for removing an ACE server. The title of this issue came across as community wide which is why I stated above.

[amoeba]

Okay, thanks for elaborating and adding your vote. I wouldn't support that and would prefer something more like what I said above. I'm curious to hear others' opinions.