Packaging of PlayOnLinux

[Jiří Konečný]

Hello,

I want to ask if PlayOnLinux could be packaged to Fedora. This program
has list of proprietary programs which are not downloaded but could be
installed if you give it setup.exe file.

Also it downloads Windows redistributable when user explicitly wants to
install program (which using this redist) or given redistributable.

If this is not "legal" in terms of Fedora how it's differ from
OpenSource software which are using not-OpenSource addons? Example of
this could be https://marketplace.firefox.com .

Thank you for answers
Jirka Konecny

[Tom Callaway]

On 10/13/2015 01:57 AM, Jiří Konečný wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I want to ask if PlayOnLinux could be packaged to Fedora. This program
> has list of proprietary programs which are not downloaded but could be
> installed if you give it setup.exe file.
>
> Also it downloads Windows redistributable when user explicitly wants to
> install program (which using this redist) or given redistributable.

Please take this to FESCo, as this is a policy decision rather than a
legal one, since best I can see, PlayOnLinux is entirely GPL/LGPL code.

It is unclear to me whether PlayOnLinux meets the "software is not
functional or useful without the presence of external code dependencies"
test:

https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:Guidelines#Packages_which_are_not_u...

~tom

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