On 15 October 2015 at 06:55, drago01 <drago01@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Wed, Oct 14, 2015 at 5:46 PM, Bastien Nocera <bnocera@xxxxxxxxxx> 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. -- imalone http://ibmalone.blogspot.co.uk -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct
