Re: [GNU-linux-libre] Adding some scummvm game(s) to the "List of software that does not respect the Free System Distribution Guidelines".

[Denis 'GNUtoo' Carikli]

On Mon, 26 Jun 2023 21:01:18 -0400
Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org> wrote:

> I think it was worth having.  We will make a recommendsation, and I
> hope that will help the distros converge.
I think it was worth having too, but it would have been way better to
open a new thread to be able to steer the conversation toward specific
questions instead of having to deal with too many issues at the same
time.

This is why I tried to make the thread stay about the specific games
only at the beginning: the scope is manageable easily and we can then
open new threads for other questions with a scope that is also
manageable, and it also enables to lower the risk of conflating issues
together.

For instance it turned out that what to do with ScummVM is not
necessarily the same from what to do in general for programs like VMs
that run other programs like games when there is no 100% free software
use case for the "VM".

And what to do with ScummVM also depends on if there are free
games/programs or not so getting an answer on that first was also a
good idea.

It also showed how in practice to deal with some form of unknown (no
known free games is not the same as no free games) which is very useful
for contributors (packagers, people writing documentation, bug
reporters, etc). At least that was very useful to me.

Denis.

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