[Bug 3356] Review Request: pipelight - NPAPI Wrapper Plugin for using Windows plugins in Linux browsers

[RPM Fusion Bugzilla]

https://bugzilla.rpmfusion.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3356

--- Comment #9 from Hans de Goede <j.w.r.degoede at gmail.com> 2014-09-25 10:45:01 CEST ---
(In reply to comment #7)
> (In reply to comment #5)
> > (In reply to comment #4)
> > > Can you please remind which section does this review apply for ?
> > 
> > I would say free, since all the pipelight plugin code itself is free. The
> > download silverlight of course is non-free, but that is not included in the
> > packages.
> Then why it's not in fedora if it's free ?
> The main reason why a package denied in fedora would be allowed in our free
> section is because of patented but free software.
> Other reasons involve 3rd part modules with where the freedom in term of
> license and binary remains preserved. 
> 
> This is not the case here because the only reason why this software is useful
> is because of windows plugins (here we are still good, wine is in fedora).
> Incidentally thoses plugins are proprietary (still ok, wine can run proprietary
> apps). But this software seems to even download proprietary plugins by default!
> that's not good at all for our free section!

It does not download them by default, you've to enable a plugin first using:

pipelight-plugin --enable PLUGIN

> I would say that I've discarded winetricks from free because of that reason.

Ok, so based on that maybe this should go to non free too, your call.

> Now I would have the reason why downloading plugin "feature" was not spitted
> into another package so this one could be kept into fedora ?

It is an integral part of the upstream functionality.

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