On Fri, 23 Jun 2023 23:21:30 -0400 Richard Stallman <r...@gnu.org> wrote: > I am leaning toward making a statement in the appropriate place: > > ScummVM is obsolete technology, and hardly used for anything except > running old nonfree games, so it contributes nothing significant to > the Free World. People who want to develop free games have much > better platforms to choose from. Therefore, we urge free distros to > omit it, and to explain why they do so.
I'd prefer a statement like that, as it avoid judging the use case
("ScummVM is obsolete technology"):
We don't know if it is possible to run fully free software
games/programs inside ScummVM: so far nobody has managed to build
and/or review the source code of supposedly free software
games/programs for ScummVM under free distributions. In addition,
unless the ScummVM source code is modified, it can only run games
approved by its developers, so its source code would need to be
modified anyway to be able to run modified versions of free
games/programs.
Therefore, until we can confirm that there are really free
games/programs for ScummVM, we urge free distros to omit
ScummVM, and to explain why they do so.
Here a free game/program would also serve implicitly as a proof that
it's possible to write your own code that runs inside ScummVM.
Denis.
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