Packaging of PlayOnLinux

Bastien Nocera bnocera at redhat.com
Thu Oct 15 11:09:57 UTC 2015



----- Original Message -----
> On 2015-10-14, Alexandre Moine <nobrakal at gmail.com> wrote:
> > But, we have to be very careful with this software since it downloads
> > scripts and icons from the web (in the automated installer part)...
> > And it can install for example IE or steam by simply clicking a
> > button, without any mentions of the proprietary part of these
> > software. I don't know if this is legal from the point of vue of our
> > lawyers :)
> >
> Yet web browsers download and execute proprietary software every minute
> and nobody is for removing the browsers from Fedora because of that.

That would be because that's not the sole purpose of a web browser, as
is explained the guidelines. We'd remove any browser that *only* did that.


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