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From: | Aljosha Papsch |
Subject: | Re: [Savannah-hackers-public] Submission of Wine programs |
Date: | Sun, 27 Sep 2015 19:54:02 +0200 |
Hi Savannah hackers, Am So, 27. Sep, 2015 um 12:15 schrieb Karl Berry <address@hidden>:
What's the policy about accepting programs that run on Wine? I'm asking this because of the submission: https://savannah.gnu.org/task/index.php?13750 I don't recall the question being explicitly asked before. It seems to me that even if a program runs under Wine, in practice a package that works only in a Windows environment of whatever kind willnecessarily induce people to use Windows -- thinking that people will goinstall wine just to run such a package seems delusionary to me. Therefore I conclude the submission should not be accepted. We have certainly rejected Windows-only submissions in the past. That's my opinion. If you want to get an official ruling, address@hidden is the place to ask. --karl
Another compelling reason to reject Windows/Wine only software is that building those packages is unreasonably hard or even impossible with free software. One example is HeidiSQL. It is released as free software, with a big source code button on the download page[0]. Though, when I download it I only find build information files for some proprietary build program. This indicates that GNU/Linux "support" via Wine (as mentioned on the download page) is only an afterthought.
Best regards, Aljosha Papsch [0] http://www.heidisql.com/download.php
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