From: ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès)
To: Jean Louis <guix@rcdrun.com>
Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: MAME emulator is giving incentive to use non-free software
Date: Tue, 29 Mar 2016 18:15:43 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87mvphjm4w.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20160329145251.GB26383@protected.rcdrun.com> (Jean Louis's message of "Tue, 29 Mar 2016 16:52:51 +0200")
Jean Louis <guix@rcdrun.com> skribis:
> On Tue, Mar 29, 2016 at 04:23:15PM +0200, Mathieu Lirzin wrote:
[...]
>> I have no interest in MAME, but refusing to distribute it makes
>> assumption about what people are going to use it for. The fact that
>> apparently “most” people are running non-free stuff on top of it, is not
>> a valid argument in term of software freedom or compliance with FSDG.
>> It could be valid for other ethical issues but IMO Guix should focus
>> only on Free Software ethics.
>
> I am find if it is going to be solved by a compliance officer.
There’s compliance officer going to tell us whether a proposed extension
to the FSDG is good or not. The FSDG are community rules, not a law.
The right thing to do IMO is to discuss those rules here and on
gnu-linux-libre, where other free distro people and FSF staff are
reading.
Ludo’.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-03-29 16:15 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 54+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-03-28 21:55 MAME emulator is giving incentive to use non-free software Jean Louis
2016-03-29 0:26 ` Jookia
2016-03-29 4:42 ` Jean Louis
2016-03-29 6:27 ` Jookia
2016-03-29 7:30 ` Jean Louis
2016-03-29 8:25 ` Jookia
2016-03-29 11:35 ` rain1
2016-03-29 12:00 ` Jean Louis
2016-03-29 12:48 ` Nils Gillmann
2016-03-29 14:23 ` Mathieu Lirzin
2016-03-29 14:52 ` Jean Louis
2016-03-29 16:15 ` Ludovic Courtès [this message]
2016-03-29 17:29 ` Jean Louis
2016-03-29 17:47 ` Jean Louis
2016-03-29 12:41 ` Nils Gillmann
2016-03-29 1:44 ` Mark H Weaver
2016-03-29 13:03 ` Ludovic Courtès
2016-03-29 17:30 ` Christopher Allan Webber
2016-03-29 17:32 ` Thompson, David
2016-03-29 17:37 ` Eric Bavier
2016-03-30 20:25 ` Ludovic Courtès
2016-03-29 8:58 ` Taylan Ulrich Bayırlı/Kammer
2016-03-29 10:12 ` Jean Louis
2016-03-29 13:14 ` Ludovic Courtès
2016-03-29 13:51 ` Jean Louis
2016-03-29 16:09 ` Ludovic Courtès
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2016-03-29 14:01 Jean Louis
2016-03-29 14:46 ` Nils Gillmann
2016-03-29 16:31 alírio eyng
2016-03-30 22:30 ` Isaac David
2016-04-02 3:17 ` Denis 'GNUtoo' Carikli
2016-03-31 22:50 ` alírio eyng
2016-04-01 6:23 ` Ricardo Wurmus
2016-04-01 12:15 ` alírio eyng
2016-04-01 20:03 ` alírio eyng
2016-04-02 2:19 ` Denis 'GNUtoo' Carikli
2016-04-02 8:48 ` [GNU-linux-libre] " alírio eyng
2016-04-03 14:20 ` alírio eyng
2016-04-03 18:36 ` alírio eyng
2016-04-03 19:39 ` Felipe Sanches
2016-04-03 21:02 ` alírio eyng
2016-04-03 21:22 ` Felipe Sanches
2016-04-04 3:26 ` alírio eyng
2016-04-04 11:19 ` Felipe Sanches
2016-04-04 22:23 ` alírio eyng
2016-04-04 22:47 ` [GNU-linux-libre] " Felipe Sanches
2016-04-04 22:58 ` Felipe Sanches
2016-04-04 22:59 ` Felipe Sanches
2016-04-05 2:29 ` alírio eyng
2016-04-09 9:00 ` Denis 'GNUtoo' Carikli
2016-04-09 19:43 ` alírio eyng
2016-04-05 15:59 ` Denis 'GNUtoo' Carikli
2016-04-06 11:02 ` alírio eyng
2016-03-30 4:10 IngeGNUe
2016-03-30 16:11 ` Mark H Weaver
2016-03-30 21:26 ` IngeGNUe
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