https://bugzilla.rpmfusion.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1992
Hans de Goede <j.w.r.degoede(a)gmail.com> changed:
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--- Comment #38 from Hans de Goede <j.w.r.degoede(a)gmail.com> 2012-11-12 09:40:05 CET
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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_no...
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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