bsnes 0.051+

Andrea Musuruane musuruan at gmail.com
Tue Sep 29 15:16:39 CEST 2009


On Tue, Sep 29, 2009 at 1:37 PM, Julian Sikorski <belegdol at gmail.com> wrote:
> as of 0.051, bsnes is now GPL. This is not the only change, however. It
> also now requires an additional library [1] to support compressed ROM
> images. The problem is that this library seems (at the first glance)
> contain mostly duplicated code from rar, 7-zip and friends, albeit
> modified. I have no skills nor time to try patching it up to use
> system-wide libs, so I have no idea how to proceed. For now, I have
> requested the latest bsnes build not to be pushed to stable, but it is
> of course only temporary.
> I have attached a preliminary spec file, which gets the job done. The
> thing is whether we are willing to accept such a chunk of (at least
> partially) duplicated code to save the ability of bsnes to use
> compressed ROM images.

Anyway, This is what Fedora Packaging Guidelines say:
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:No_Bundled_Libraries

It is quite clear that a reviewer could not accept the package as it is. Sorry.

BTW have you checked that all the bundled library licenses are
compatible with the GPL used by bsnes?

Bye,

Andrea.


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