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From: Ludovic =?UTF-8?Q?Court=C3=A8s?= <ludo@gnu.org>
Subject: bug#38360: Retroarch might violate FSDG
Date: Tue, 26 Nov 2019 11:34:04 +0100
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To: =?UTF-8?Q?Nicol=C3=B2?= Balzarotti <anothersms@gmail.com>
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Hello,

Nicol=C3=B2 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-x86-6=
4.
> 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 =E2=80=9Csource=E2=80=
=9D 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=E2=80=99t provide those plugins though, do we?

Thanks,
Ludo=E2=80=99.