Packaging of PlayOnLinux

[Ian Malone]

On 15 October 2015 at 06:55, drago01 <drago01 at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 14, 2015 at 5:46 PM, Bastien Nocera <bnocera at redhat.com> wrote:
>>
>>
>> ----- Original Message -----
>>> Dne 14.10.2015 v 16:50 Bastien Nocera napsal(a):
>>> > If the application cannot work without downloading anything, or being
>>> > supplied
>>> > third-party (sometimes proprietary) applications, then it's closer to an
>>> > emulator than a front-end that's generally useful.
>>>
>>> The guidelines speaks about *dependencies*.
>>> https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:Guidelines#Packages_which_are_not_useful_without_external_bits
>>>
>>> I think that the idea behind this wording was "runtime dependencies". To deny
>>> application which can not even run without
>>> those proprietary deps.
>>> PlayOnLinux is mainly for games, but you can run any Windows program using
>>> that. Even Gimp or Firefox (I could not
>>> remember program which does not have native linux version and is free).
>>> So it may not be useful for you, but it can be useful for somebody else.
>>>
>>> For me PlayOnLinux is much closer to virt-manager.
>>>
>>> > And emulators aren't allowed in Fedora.
>>>
>>> What?
>>> You mean like Wine, all those terminal emulators, QEMU, atari++, hercules,
>>> fuse-emulator and lots of others?
>>
>> The ones listed here:
>> https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Licensing:SoftwareTypes?rd=Licensing/SoftwareTypes
>
> Wel the reason is not "because they are emulators" but "If it requires
> ROMs (or image files in any format) of copyrighted or patented
> material to be useful (and the owners of those copyrights and patents
> have not given their express written permission), then it's not
> permitted. " ... so "emulators aren't allowed is not what the
> guidelines say" (the wording is a bit odd though).
>

Well, it does say "Most emulators (applications which emulate another
platform) are not permitted for inclusion in Fedora." It probably
shouldn't use the term emulators or at least qualify it a bit. Maybe
"console emulators" might be a more accurate term. As people have
mentioned, wine, dosbox, qemu. Some of those aren't emulators in the
hardware sense.

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imalone
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