From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic =?utf-8?Q?Court=C3=A8s?=) Subject: Re: MAME emulator is giving incentive to use non-free software Date: Wed, 30 Mar 2016 22:25:48 +0200 Message-ID: <87oa9vbtmb.fsf@gnu.org> References: <20160328215516.GA27719@protected.rcdrun.com> <87shzavz0y.fsf@netris.org> <87h9fp2nvc.fsf@dustycloud.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:51689) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1alMge-0006cv-9m for guix-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 30 Mar 2016 16:25:57 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1alMga-0000hR-5a for guix-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 30 Mar 2016 16:25:56 -0400 In-Reply-To: <87h9fp2nvc.fsf@dustycloud.org> (Christopher Allan Webber's message of "Tue, 29 Mar 2016 10:30:15 -0700") List-Id: "Development of GNU Guix and the GNU System distribution." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: guix-devel-bounces+gcggd-guix-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: guix-devel-bounces+gcggd-guix-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org To: Christopher Allan Webber Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org Hi! Thanks Chris for the thoughtful comments and insightful examples! Christopher Allan Webber skribis: > I think this is a really bad path to go down. I hope we don't go down > it. Let's condemn proprietary software, but not make assumptions that > free software systems will only be used for proprietary purposes. We > might make that into a self-fulfilling prophecy, and prevent some future > interesting free work. I think that would be a shame. Based on what you said, I agree with you. So I think the course of action would now be to: 1. Include MAME, possibly under a different name as on Parabola if there=E2=80=99s a trademark issue, and removing the non-free files tha= t I think someone mentioned somewhere (?). 2. Keep the Nintendo=C2=AE emulators, following whatever the best practice is in other FSDG distros with regards to mention of the brand in the description and synopsis. Thank you people! :-) Ludo=E2=80=99.