From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Denis 'GNUtoo' Carikli Subject: Re: MAME emulator is giving incentive to use non-free software Date: Sat, 2 Apr 2016 04:19:55 +0200 Message-ID: <20160402041955.484a1cb1@top-laptop> References: Reply-To: Workgroup for fully free GNU/Linux distributions Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha256; boundary="Sig_/w7TYE+SyQ3B7b93C+8D9C+j"; protocol="application/pgp-signature" Return-path: In-Reply-To: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: gnu-linux-libre-bounces+gldg-gnu-linux-libre=m.gmane.org@nongnu.org Sender: gnu-linux-libre-bounces+gldg-gnu-linux-libre=m.gmane.org@nongnu.org To: =?UTF-8?B?YWzDrXJpbw==?= eyng Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org, gnu-linux-libre@nongnu.org List-Id: guix-devel.gnu.org --Sig_/w7TYE+SyQ3B7b93C+8D9C+j Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Tue, 29 Mar 2016 16:31:40 +0000 al=C3=ADrio eyng wrote: > these are the approaches i can think: > *extremely conservative (eliminating false positive errors)[1] > removing all emulators > *conservative (eliminating false positive errors)[1] > make packages/executables like game1-emulator1, game1-emulator2, ... > and not allowing direct emulator installation/execution > *liberal (avoiding false positive errors[1] and false negative > errors[2]) allowing all emulators with free games know > *extremely liberal (eliminating false negative errors)[2] > allowing all emulators Why not just requiring some documentation along the emulator that documents at least one fully free software that can run on it. That software would have to be able to be built and run 100% free software. Making that documentation available and known to the user will steer that user toward free software. Denis. --Sig_/w7TYE+SyQ3B7b93C+8D9C+j Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Description: OpenPGP digital signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2 iQIcBAEBCAAGBQJW/yxLAAoJENWQk6o21VqZKZAP/AhLyQDiOMAaPpskXLxiZQN6 zRXkbRtp2qxP3iEVZCsf/P0JnpFoVWBNqK8/uCi8cvR/jkhWQ1+Gr/b/PtrtIJCb XPOdcb3hH7RwkATi7bQU6UXVOFPf3ZlKWgatKEMUiu8AEPWB6FsfYhCdwOkydwpP wbVH73Z72kgEjUI5CH+BlyRU9mPkAGMDAPDREMl//REUmwvVrCGGVEskgSz5Ps23 lYG1ERoAsJs7hORVgSbDWzSAdLh8u2nioi++GVKuHInpmBhQjxV9DRGUDnDhS+Pm GlNVp3EpaLm0MvjijJknomJ5FiJDAdO0zHYWGw9J9itW4C9hCxDKET93+VSItFHJ ccm6HEKMa3TY4yov5536hKawRtyX2OXtglZwrDQ86V2Ed9n4AWdWqFzn5jYCSqoB z2PCiVVp0uQBlUjiHkdJoEu7CJGhf2aZF2AoqSjiKuasLIOFiNq8UMi+Yg4Qo05y CHiFSRpljOleZgo4AgyekdJPbNe358rZpA58OZ/AdbxaVLVl3pg3cp1XOrKwXfSc EmizWhzQ7z0IPKY9fx4/rX8l76pJmIwkCGTmNB+LfBloEceHRT2g+TEo1sm51wcL vMOTtrKranUqsCMurXcEy+QJz2jlnZICw9p1qgLyH/N342nRqohK5DRLLnfF3Le5 92EYI06TXqTJeLOrs1Ai =bqnl -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Sig_/w7TYE+SyQ3B7b93C+8D9C+j--