On Mon, 19 Jun 2023 22:55:29 -0400 Richard Stallman <r...@gnu.org> wrote: > > but then ruben offered an example of one libre game which does > > exist for ScummVM, which would resolve ScummVM's loneliness > > problem, if it has one > > I don't think that is the right way to understand this issue. > It's a judgment call, not a logic problem. > > The question is not whether ScummVM false into the category of "0 free > games need it" or "1 or more free games need it". > > The question is whether the free games that need ScummVM are > significant enpugh to change the judgment from "basically this is a > way of running old nonfree games" to "this makes senss in the Free > World." > > There is no sharp line between the two.
If there is "1 or more free games [that] need it", it's also possible to reduce the steering toward nonfree software by hiding ScummVM somehow as a dependency of these games. So in that case, it can be justified as reducing the steering toward nonfree software, and given ScummVM specificities (whitelist of games/programs checksums), applying the same logic to similar cases would probably not cause significant issues. Denis.
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