So I was troubleshooting a game not launching today on my Manjaro system and
I wanted to test it on another distro to see if the same issue happens there
and the closest system I had to me was my Trisquel desktop. The game actually
gave me a different issue there, namely it was missing several different .so
files in order for the game to run. I was able to potentially solve the issue
(Trisquel had some of the files in question, just not the 32 bit versions so
I just downlaoded those files and put them in the game's folder) but this
gave me a question I hadn't considered before: Can .so files be closed source
? Is it good practice to basically say if Trisquel doesn't ship with the file
that it probably has some issues when it comes to being free software ? I
wasn't worried about the files I downloaded today because Trisquel had the 64
bit versions of them so I figured overall those specific files 32 bit
versions would also be ok but now I am curious about this as a whole.
- [Trisquel-users] Question About .SO Files publiclewdness
