[Fedora-legal-list] Packaging of PlayOnLinux

[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_useful_without_external_bits

~tom

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