[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

--- Comment #42 from Hans de Goede <j.w.r.degoede at gmail.com> 2012-11-14 08:52:50 CET ---
To me the center of the whole discussion is code versus content. Downloaders
for non-free content are fine, and are often even in Fedora, but this is not a
downloader for non free content, it is a downloader for non free code. And that
to me clearly puts it in nonfree.

As for the rules for including in rpmfusion-free (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

There are 2 reasons for rpmfusions existence:

1) Fedora does not ship some fully FOSS software because of legal worries about
how various laws in the US apply to the software in question, this is what
rpmfusion-free is for.

2) Fedora does not ship the software because it either is not free according to
Fedora's definition of free, this is what rpmfusion-nonfree is for.

Although I'm sure that one could argue that 1) might somehow somewhat apply to
winetricks, to me the main reason for it not going into Fedora-proper is 2),
thus it belongs in nonfree.

Another way of looking at this, is if the legal situation in the US would get
fixed / improved, could the package then be moved into Fedora proper, and for
winetricks to me the answer clearly is no and thus winetricks belongs in
nonfree.

NB I still hope / dream that one day we can completely get rid of
rpmfusion-free, moving everything there to Fedora proper :)

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