From: Christian Miller <christian.miller@dadoes.de>
To: guix-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Questions about packages because of license and other
Date: Wed, 06 Dec 2023 21:36:06 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87cyvjoyq1.fsf@dadoes.de> (raw)
Hi,
1. PrismLauncher[0]: The software itself is licensed as GPL3 but it is
used to download and launch a proprietary videogame called
"Minecraft". Since it is itself GPL3 licensed but used for a
proprietary videogame, would it be allowed for upstream or not?
2: PCSX2[1]: Software itself is licensed as GPL3 but is used to
emulate a PlayStation 2 (game console), which is highly proprietary
hardware. It is also wishlisted on libreplanet[2]. It requires the
original proprietary BIOS (not distributed by the software) to run.
Since it is a game console, it also requires proprietary video games
(not distributed by the software).
3. impatient-mode[3]: This is an Emacs mode to write HTML and see it
in realtime rendered in the web browser. It has no license file. In
the file "impatient-mode.el" it says "This is free and unencumbered
software released into the public domain.". Is this suitable for an
upstream package? It looks to me not correctly licensed but I am also
not an expert in this and therefore unsure.
PrismLauncher works but does not show images from the instance.
PCSX2 works but does not show icons.
Imaptient-mode is done.
Since it is better to push as much as possible upstream, would they
met the requirements or not?
[0] https://github.com/PrismLauncher/PrismLauncher
[1] https://github.com/PCSX2/pcsx2
[2] https://libreplanet.org/wiki/Group:Guix/Wishlist#Emulation
[3] https://github.com/skeeto/impatient-mode
--
Christian Miller
next reply other threads:[~2023-12-06 20:37 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2023-12-06 20:36 Christian Miller [this message]
2023-12-06 20:43 ` Questions about packages because of license and other Andreas Enge
2023-12-06 21:02 ` Felix Lechner via Development of GNU Guix and the GNU System distribution.
2023-12-07 7:14 ` Ada Stevenson
2024-01-15 21:25 ` Christian Miller
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