Requires proprietary music about starruler2-source HOT 5 OPEN

will it crash?

Oh no, it's fine! It just won't play music.

Does it expect a specific name/format of the files?

... This is a trickier question to answer. I've never really poked around the music system a lot, but the one thing I can see offhand is that data/music/orchestra.txt, the file that controls the ingame music, is missing from the repo. People have experimented with custom soundtracks for OS builds of the game, but I don't know if any of them are still around... I do know that https://github.com/OlivierGagnon/Star-Ruler-2-Orchestra.txt-generator was considered functional enough to be posted in the #mods-and-tools channel on the OpenSR Discord, but that's about all the info I've got. 😐

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Please may the authors of the music be contacted and politely asked to liberate the music by releasing it under a libre license?

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I don't know who they are, and I'm spending quite enough energy debating the matter with you. I don't want to start debating it with them, too. 😂

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Is there any room for simply replacing the encumbered music files with some freely licensed works?

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Plenty of room (see my first comment). It's just that nobody's cared enough to compile an official OpenSR soundtrack so far.

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