Banning free emulators would make Parabola's criteria more strict than the FSDG. Then again, non-free non-functional data like game art is also blacklisted at least sometimes.
On 04/02/2016 05:05 AM, Denis 'GNUtoo' Carikli wrote: >> * Where all the programs for the platform are non-free, emulators can >> > be viewed as a kind of development kit for the platform architecture, >> > allowing new free software to be created for that machine. > That might not be a strong enough incentive to package such emulators, > especially if there is no documentation to explain the user how to use > it. gcc is for instance documented well enough for developers to be > able to actually use it. Following the (emulator) documentation would > guide the developer toward a working test program, like a hello world. > Porting free software to non-free operating systems is considered nice and not generally discouraged on [1], so I think this is a strong enough incentive. I suppose an emulator can help with porting even if porting is not yet easy and well-documented. [1] https://www.gnu.org/prep/standards/html_node/System-Portability.html _______________________________________________ Dev mailing list [email protected] https://lists.parabola.nu/mailman/listinfo/dev
