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From: "Ludovic Courtès" <ludo@gnu.org>
To: "Nicolò Balzarotti" <anothersms@gmail.com>
Cc: 38360@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#38360: Retroarch might violate FSDG
Date: Tue, 26 Nov 2019 11:34:04 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87d0df7wpv.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAO7Ox=bkYoJXyGPNL_W5MqKd8=ULPojGTUSzkZ9Dy4zLuyn3vA@mail.gmail.com> ("Nicolò Balzarotti"'s message of "Sun, 24 Nov 2019 15:15:01 +0100")

Hello,

Nicolò Balzarotti <anothersms@gmail.com> skribis:

> We might have a problem on how retroarch is packaged. I've never used it,
> tried just now. There's the "core download" section where it downloads
> "$core.so.zip". Those are .so files:
> .config/retroarch/cores/atari800_libretro.so:     file format elf64-x86-64.
> I think we should either compile them and ship them or remove the download
> section or something.

We should definitely remove all binary files from the “source” tarballs.

> Also, when downloading cores there are no license info

That should be investigated, indeed, possibly looking at what Debian is
doing.

> nckx provided this [1] as a useful link. It seems that some of the plugins
> are available for non-commercial projects only (so not compatible with the
> GPLv3, used by retroarch).

We don’t provide those plugins though, do we?

Thanks,
Ludo’.

  reply	other threads:[~2019-11-26 10:35 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-11-24 14:15 bug#38360: Retroarch might violate FSDG Nicolò Balzarotti
2019-11-26 10:34 ` Ludovic Courtès [this message]
2019-11-26 23:26   ` Nicolò Balzarotti
2019-11-27  2:09     ` Jesse Gibbons
2019-11-27 20:48       ` Arne Babenhauserheide
2019-11-28  0:02         ` bug#38360: Retroarch does " Tobias Geerinckx-Rice via Bug reports for GNU Guix
2019-11-28 10:06           ` Arne Babenhauserheide
2019-11-30  4:24             ` Mark H Weaver
2019-11-30 12:10               ` Arne Babenhauserheide
2019-11-28  0:35         ` bug#38360: Retroarch might " Nicolò Balzarotti
2019-11-28  8:05           ` Arne Babenhauserheide
2019-11-30 21:58         ` Tobias Geerinckx-Rice via Bug reports for GNU Guix
2019-11-28 16:27     ` Ludovic Courtès
2019-11-28 19:24       ` Tobias Geerinckx-Rice via Bug reports for GNU Guix
2019-11-29 15:21         ` Tobias Geerinckx-Rice via Bug reports for GNU Guix
2019-11-29 15:24           ` Tobias Geerinckx-Rice via Bug reports for GNU Guix
2019-11-29 16:05           ` Arne Babenhauserheide
2019-11-29 20:14           ` bug#38360: [PATCH] gnu: retroarch: Disable Online Updater [FSDG fix] Tobias Geerinckx-Rice via Bug reports for GNU Guix
2019-11-30 21:20             ` Tobias Geerinckx-Rice via Bug reports for GNU Guix

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