On Fri, Dec 22, 2023 at 9:38 AM Dan Horák <d...@danny.cz> wrote:
>
> On Fri, 22 Dec 2023 09:13:34 -0500
> Neal Gompa <ngomp...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > On Fri, Dec 22, 2023 at 9:06 AM Link Dupont <l...@sub-pop.net> wrote:
> > >
> > > Hello,
> > >
> > > I've created a package[1] for linapple[2], an Apple ][ family emulator. 
> > > I'm trying to understand whether it can be included in Fedora or not. 
> > > I've read the legal guidelines on emulators[3] and the packaging 
> > > guidelines on what can be packaged[4]. I believe linapple can run without 
> > > requiring any sort of boot/system ROM, so I think this falls into the 
> > > category of inclusion in Fedora. I want to follow the spirit of Fedora's 
> > > open source as much as possible. Can anyone with a better understanding 
> > > of the emulator requirements tell me whether linapple can be included or 
> > > not?
> > >
> > > Thanks!
> > > Link
> > >
> > > 1: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2025398
> > > 2: https://github.com/linappleii/linapple
> > > 3: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/legal/misc/#_emulators
> > > 4: 
> > > https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/packaging-guidelines/what-can-be-packaged/#_packages_which_are_not_useful_without_external_code
> >
> > From what I can see in the source code, I think linapple is fine to
> > include. There's no proprietary blobs or code in there that I can see.
>
> https://github.com/linappleii/linapple/blob/master/inc/resource.h
> contains a dump of a ROM, I suppose it's the Apple one, not a
> free reimplementation. Thus I believe linapple is non-free.
>

Oof I missed that, thanks for catching it. Yes, I agree.



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