[Fedora-legal-list] Re: Can I package linapple and ship it in Fedora?

[Dan Horák]

On Fri, 22 Dec 2023 09:13:34 -0500
Neal Gompa <ngompa13(a)gmail.com&gt; wrote:

>  On Fri, Dec 22, 2023 at 9:06 AM Link Dupont <link(a)sub-pop.net&gt;
> wrote:
>  >
>  > Hello,
>  >
>  > I've created a package[1] for linapple[2], an Apple ][ family emulator. I'm
> trying to understand whether it can be included in Fedora or not. I've read the legal
> guidelines on emulators[3] and the packaging guidelines on what can be packaged[4]. I
> believe linapple can run without requiring any sort of boot/system ROM, so I think this
> falls into the category of inclusion in Fedora. I want to follow the spirit of
> Fedora's open source as much as possible. Can anyone with a better understanding of
> the emulator requirements tell me whether linapple can be included or not?
>  >
>  > Thanks!
>  > Link
>  >
>  > 1: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2025398
>  > 2: https://github.com/linappleii/linapple
>  > 3: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/legal/misc/#_emulators
>  > 4:
> https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/packaging-guidelines/what-can-be-pac...
>  
>  From what I can see in the source code, I think linapple is fine to
>  include. There's no proprietary blobs or code in there that I can see. 
https://github.com/linappleii/linapple/blob/master/inc/resource.h
contains a dump of a ROM, I suppose it's the Apple one, not a
free reimplementation. Thus I believe linapple is non-free.


		Dan