Some issues with packaging dolphin-emu

[Nicolas Chauvet]

2011/12/21 Jeremy <alexjnewt at gmail.com>:
> I submitted a review request on bugzilla for dolphin-emu a few days ago
> (https://bugzilla.rpmfusion.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2098 ) but there seems
> to be two issues with dolphin.
>
> The first issue seems to be that it requires libSOIL and SFML, which
> have yet to be packaged by Fedora. The requests can be found here:
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=759057
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=759059
> Dolphin, upon building, will build and include the libraries if such
> library do not already exist. I realize fedora has a policy against
> bundled libraries but I would hope an exception can be made for dolphin
> as a temporary solution until libSOIL and SFML are accepted into
> Fedora's repositories.
>
> The second issue seems to be a licensing issue, as explained here:
> http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=535073#29
> I removed wiiuse as an explicit require of dolphin-emu, but the second
> part of the issue maybe a little troublesome. I would assume these means
> dolphin-emu would need to be put in non-free but I would like to know
> what the devs think. Hopefully dolphin can still be included.


Hi Jeremy,

Having a GPL program linking nonfree library is a bit weird indeed.
Technically if the Cg toolkit is mandatory, that alone will put
dolphin in the nonfree section even if they choose a  license that
sounds more appropriate.

Nicolas (kwizart)