On Tue, 13 Jun 2023 21:32:29 -0400 Richard Stallman <r...@gnu.org> wrote: > Sorry, the meaning is not clear to me. Whan you say "the way to go > would be", tu cherces à réaliser quel but ? Quand tu dis, "make sure > that", est-ce que ça signifie "établir le fait que des programmes > libres tournent déjà sur Scummvm", ou est-ce "développer des > programmes libres qui ont besoin de Scummvm, s'il n'y en a pas > encore"? I mean, making sure that any kind of existing free program (a full featured game or a hello world) can run inside ScummVM.
If I take Guile instead of scummVM if I copy the following lines in hello.scm and run 'guile hello.scm' I've a valid existing free software program that runs inside Guile: > (display "This program is released under the CC-0 license\n") > (display "Hello world\n") But nobody is able to provide a similar proof for ScummVM because providing that proof requires substantial work, and it could turn out that it require a huge amount of work that include reverse engineering file formats (by reading the scummVM source code and trying to produce valid files for scummVM), or trying to build software that is complicated to build, etc. So because of that we don't even know if the "private programming" use case that was advocated by John really works without substantial effort. So unless a proof is produced that somehow it is possible to run free software in scummVM, the only use case of scummVM are either running nonfree software or running software of unknown freedom that would likely be mistakenly understood as free instead of "unknown" by users. We also have an additional problem that I didn't know about when writing the mails you quoted: to run a modified version of existing programs or to write your own you might need to patch ScummVM to add the checksums of the binary you produced. Denis.
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