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Bug 466658 - Review Request: VisualBoyAdvance - Nintendo Gameboy (,Advance,Color) Emulator
Summary: Review Request: VisualBoyAdvance - Nintendo Gameboy (,Advance,Color) Emulator
Keywords:
Status: CLOSED CANTFIX
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: Package Review
Version: rawhide
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
medium
medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Nobody's working on this, feel free to take it
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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Whiteboard:
Depends On:
Blocks: FE-Legal
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2008-10-12 10:49 UTC by Conrad Meyer
Modified: 2008-11-19 16:18 UTC (History)
5 users (show)

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Doc Type: Bug Fix
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Last Closed: 2008-11-19 15:23:14 UTC
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Description Conrad Meyer 2008-10-12 10:49:34 UTC 
Spec URL: http://konradm.fedorapeople.org/fedora/SPECS/VisualBoyAdvance.spec
SRPM URL: http://konradm.fedorapeople.org/fedora/SRPMS/VisualBoyAdvance-1.7.2-1.fc9.src.rpm
Description:
VisualBoyAdvance is a Nintendo (TM) Gameboy and GameboyAdvance emulator
with debugging capabilities.
Comment 1 Conrad Meyer 2008-10-12 10:56:18 UTC 
Oops, doesn't build in koji [0], but rpmlint is silent. The configure script doesn't recognize ppc64-redhat?

[0]: http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/taskinfo?taskID=875185
Comment 2 Mamoru TASAKA 2008-10-12 11:57:14 UTC 
Are you sure this software won't be against Fedora's emulator policy?

http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Licensing/SoftwareTypes#Emulators
Also, from http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/SIGs/Games :

But generally, if it requires ROM files, image files, or a copy of 
the machines BIOS/firmware to work, we won't package it.
Comment 3 Mads Villadsen 2008-10-12 12:01:57 UTC 
It seems more like something that belongs in the RPMFusion project at
rpmfusion.org (where I think gnuboy is already packaged).
Comment 4 Conrad Meyer 2008-10-12 18:50:20 UTC 
(In reply to comment #2)
> Are you sure this software won't be against Fedora's emulator policy?
> 
> http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Licensing/SoftwareTypes#Emulators
> Also, from http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/SIGs/Games :
> 
> But generally, if it requires ROM files, image files, or a copy of 
> the machines BIOS/firmware to work, we won't package it.

Well, that's why I submitted it, I want to find out if it is acceptable in Fedora (RPMFusion does not allow packages which could be included in Fedora). Could this not be used to run homebrew (and thus not patented nor copyrighted) games etc?
Comment 5 Jason Tibbitts 2008-10-15 02:28:35 UTC 
Best to ask the lawyers, I suppose.

But you did not answer the question of whether it requires ROM images or a copy of any legally protected firmware in order to run.  Answer that and there may be no point in asking for a legal opinion.
Comment 6 Jason Tibbitts 2008-10-15 02:31:44 UTC 
Also, and I hate to be an ass about this, but there are really better ways to go about this than submitting something you know to be questionable to an already overloaded review queue so that one of the already overloaded package reviewers can come through and to the legwork.  Was a simple post to fedora-legal-list not sufficient to answer your questions about this package?
Comment 7 Conrad Meyer 2008-10-15 03:37:24 UTC 
Last time I sent an email to fedora-legal-list they never got it. I had to forward it to spot directly to get an answer (I'm not subscribed to the list). It's easy to *not* review this if you think it's too questionable.
Comment 8 Tom "spot" Callaway 2008-10-17 20:22:20 UTC 
I'm passing this on to the lawyers.
Comment 9 Andrea Musuruane 2008-10-26 09:50:38 UTC 
I had just a quick look at the spec file.

It seems some things are missing. For example there is no GTK+ GUI and no i18n support.

You may also want to read this thread where there is another spec file for Fedora:
http://forums.fedoraforum.org/showthread.php?t=45988
Comment 10 Conrad Meyer 2008-10-27 23:35:44 UTC 
Andrea: I'm waiting on reply from spot before I work on this too much. If the lawyers say no, I'll continue the review request at RPM Fusion.
Comment 11 Tom "spot" Callaway 2008-11-19 15:23:14 UTC 
Red Hat legal gave this a lot of thought, but in the end, they decided this one was too risky.
Comment 12 Conrad Meyer 2008-11-19 16:18:35 UTC 
Thanks for considering it.
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