[Bug 1992] Review Request: winetricks - Package manager for Win32 DLLs and applications on POSIX

[RPM Fusion Bugzilla]

https://bugzilla.rpmfusion.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1992

Hans de Goede <j.w.r.degoede at gmail.com> changed:

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--- Comment #38 from Hans de Goede <j.w.r.degoede at gmail.com> 2012-11-12 09:40:05 CET ---
Hi,

(In reply to comment #37)
> > Why do you think that make it eligible for RPM Fusion free section ?
> 
> Maybe the question was more aimed at the reporter than to me.  But since I
> accepted it in my review, maybe I should motivate how *I* reasoned:
> 
> According to http://rpmfusion.org/Contributors#Your_package_gets_approved there
> are two criteria for a package to be eligible for the free section:
> 
> 1) Open Source Software (as defined by the Fedora Licensing Guidelines)
> 2) the Fedora project cannot ship due to other reasons
> 
> Winetricks is licenced under LGPLv2+, which meets requirement 1.
> 
> According to 
> https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:Guidelines#Packages_which_are_not_useful_without_external_bits
> a "software which downloads code bundles from the internet in order to be
> functional or useful is not acceptable for inclusion in Fedora".  Doing that is
> the very purpose of winetricks.  So there is an "other reason" meeting criteria
> 2.
> 
> Isn't there something wrong in this reasoning?

I'm fine with having winetricks in rpmfusion, but the above is simply arguing
that a circle is also a square. winetricks sole purpose is to install
proprietary software, and once installed it is not involved in running this non
free software at all, to me this clearly makes it non-free.

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