Gifting steam/gog games to Wine developers

[Jerome Leclanche]

Hi list

I was reading a bug which gave me an idea.
I have a lot of unused Steam gift links from duplicates in my Humble
Bundle purchases. I'd like to share those with whomever needs any of
them to work on bugs (or to Wine devs who want them, you guys more
than deserve them).
I'd like to set up a Wiki page containing a list of available games
and a point of contact to get it gifted, encouraging other Wine users
to do the same and have one more open method of contributing to the
project.

Is this something that would interest anyone?

J. Leclanche

[André Hentschel]

Am 16.02.2014 17:59, schrieb Jerome Leclanche:
> Hi list
>
> I was reading a bug which gave me an idea.
> I have a lot of unused Steam gift links from duplicates in my Humble
> Bundle purchases. I'd like to share those with whomever needs any of
> them to work on bugs (or to Wine devs who want them, you guys more
> than deserve them).
> I'd like to set up a Wiki page containing a list of available games
> and a point of contact to get it gifted, encouraging other Wine users
> to do the same and have one more open method of contributing to the
> project.
>
> Is this something that would interest anyone?

Hi Jerome,
I once was gifted an Humble Indi Bundle to work on a related Bug, and actually i just used it to fix the bug, not for playing :)
So this kind of contribution really works. Thus i think your idea is really good.
Sadly i have no time atm to work on such things i guess.

[Stefan Dösinger]

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Am 2014-02-16 17:59, schrieb Jerome Leclanche:
> I was reading a bug which gave me an idea. I have a lot of unused
> Steam gift links from duplicates in my Humble Bundle purchases. I'd
> like to share those with whomever needs any of them to work on bugs
> (or to Wine devs who want them, you guys more than deserve them).
> I like the idea. I won't make use of your offer personally though.
> Since I'm working for codeweavers and they're providing me with all
> the game licenses I need for my work on Wine I've never had any issues
> with getting access to games. Unfortunately there's also no shortage
> of bugs and work to be done :-\ .

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[Vincent Pelletier]

On Sun, 16 Feb 2014 16:59:18 +0000, Jerome Leclanche
<adys.wh(a)gmail.com> wrote:
> I have a lot of unused Steam gift links from duplicates in my Humble
> Bundle purchases. I'd like to share those

While I do like the idea, it may be prohibited by HIB use terms (is
that even what it's called ?). Better check this first. I recall
reading something along the lines that a bundle can not be resold/gifted
in whole nor in chunks.

Of course, this has nothing to do with other gift origins.
-- 
Vincent Pelletier

[Jerome Leclanche]

On Sun, Feb 16, 2014 at 10:00 PM, Vincent Pelletier
<plr.vincent(a)gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sun, 16 Feb 2014 16:59:18 +0000, Jerome Leclanche
> <adys.wh(a)gmail.com> wrote:
> > I have a lot of unused Steam gift links from duplicates in my Humble
> > Bundle purchases. I'd like to share those
>
> While I do like the idea, it may be prohibited by HIB use terms (is
> that even what it's called ?). Better check this first. I recall
> reading something along the lines that a bundle can not be resold/gifted
> in whole nor in chunks.
>
> Of course, this has nothing to do with other gift origins.
> That used to be the case. They changed their policy and do offer gift
> links for all single games.

What is not allowed is the resale of games, afaik.

J. Leclanche
> --
> Vincent Pelletier