bug#38360: Retroarch might violate FSDG

2019-11-30 Thread Tobias Geerinckx-Rice via Bug reports for GNU Guix
Arne, Arne Babenhauserheide 写道: Aren’t we overblocking here? As of current master: very likely :-( Regardless of (y)our opinions on commerce and freedom, downloading executables that violate GNU's own Free Software Distribution Guidelines is simply not an option. However, it's very

bug#38360: Retroarch might violate FSDG

2019-11-29 Thread Tobias Geerinckx-Rice via Bug reports for GNU Guix
Tobias Geerinckx-Rice 写道: I'm looking into this now. So I've installed Retroarch on Debian. They patch[0] it to hide the Updater by default but it's trivial to reënable (tested): $ echo 'menu_show_core_updater = "false"' >> \ ~/.config/retroarch/retroarch.cfg This does not appease

bug#38360: Retroarch might violate FSDG

2019-11-28 Thread Tobias Geerinckx-Rice via Bug reports for GNU Guix
Ludovic Courtès 写道: Would you be able to help with that? Hopefully there are patches we can take from Debian, no? If nobody can work on it in a timely fashion, I would propose to remove retroarch until someone can do this work. I'm looking into this now. Kind regards, T G-R

bug#38360: Retroarch might violate FSDG

2019-11-28 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Hi Nicolò, Nicolò Balzarotti skribis: > We don't provide them _directly_, but when loading the program the first > option is "Load core". Then, first option again, is "Download core". Here > you have a list of "proprietary" .so.zip downloads. Retroarch, as far as I > understand, is encouraging

bug#38360: Retroarch might violate FSDG

2019-11-28 Thread Arne Babenhauserheide
Nicolò Balzarotti writes: >> Aren’t we overblocking here? This is not a case of a program restricted >> to push someone into proprietary software, but a case of a program >> restricted to not-for-profit for everybody. >> > This is, by (some) definition, non free. Yes. >> It is a similar case

bug#38360: Retroarch might violate FSDG

2019-11-27 Thread Nicolò Balzarotti
Hi, Il giorno mer 27 nov 2019 alle ore 21:48 Arne Babenhauserheide < arne_...@web.de> ha scritto: > > Jesse Gibbons writes: > > On Wed, 2019-11-27 at 00:26 +0100, Nicolò Balzarotti wrote: > > I can confirm that snes9x is nonfree because it is only for > non-commercial > > use. We should at

bug#38360: Retroarch might violate FSDG

2019-11-26 Thread Jesse Gibbons
On Wed, 2019-11-27 at 00:26 +0100, Nicolò Balzarotti wrote: > Hi Ludo, thanks for your response. > > We don't provide them _directly_, but when loading the program the first > option is "Load core". Then, first option again, is "Download core". Here > you have a list of "proprietary" .so.zip

bug#38360: Retroarch might violate FSDG

2019-11-26 Thread Nicolò Balzarotti
Hi Ludo, thanks for your response. We don't provide them _directly_, but when loading the program the first option is "Load core". Then, first option again, is "Download core". Here you have a list of "proprietary" .so.zip downloads. Retroarch, as far as I understand, is encouraging the download

bug#38360: Retroarch might violate FSDG

2019-11-25 Thread Nicolò Balzarotti
Hello guix! How I reported today on the IRC #guix channel: We might have a problem on how retroarch is packaged. I've never used it, tried just now. There's the "core download" section where it downloads "$core.so.zip". Those are .so files: .config/retroarch/cores/atari800_libretro.so: file