Re: [GNU-linux-libre] MAME emulator is giving incentive to use non-free software

[alírio eyng]

On 4/2/16, Denis 'GNUtoo' Carikli <address@hidden> wrote:
> Why not just requiring some documentation along the emulator that
> documents at least one fully free software that can run on it.
this is missing some complexity:
we don't want something better done natively (we exclude ndiswrapper)[1]
but we still want to allow introducing free software on nonfree platforms[2]

i think packaging is better than documenting, shouldn't be much more effort

but this doesn't address the problem of discernment
example: i can go to [3] and see there are four games, i know they are
free because they are inside a free distro frontier
if users need to exit the free distro frontier, they probably will
find nonfree and free games and don't see much difference
the ideal would be to have a comprehensive set of games packaged
inside the free distro frontier

hiding the emulator executable/package would warn when they are
exiting the free distro frontier and poke them to add free games to
the distro (suggesting to developers or sending patches)
alternatively, forking all emulators and creating a free community
around them would also provide a freedom frontier

[1]https://libreplanet.org/wiki/List_of_software_that_does_not_respect_the_Free_System_Distribution_Guidelines
[2]https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/guix-devel/2014-11/msg00333.html
[3]http://packages.trisquel.info/belenos-updates/scummvm