Announcing Dribble a new addon repo for Fedora Extras users

[Callum Lerwick]

On Mon, 2006-10-16 at 09:52 +0200, Hans de Goede wrote:
> What I was trying to say with the above message is that if someone else
> is willing to have the discussion for a package here and if the outcome
> is that the package is ok for Extras then I'm more then happy to move it
> to Extras including putting it through review (again as all packages in
> dribble are already reviewed).

I'll do it! (I used various Atari STs from 1987 to 1997...)

On Mon, 2006-10-16 at 12:36 +0530, Rahul Sundaram wrote: 
> I believe the rule of thumb here is that if we have freely 
> redistributable "data" that runs on these emulators, we can include the 
> emulator in extras. In other words, the question to ask yourself, is 
> there any legal and Free software uses for the emulators?


Since there's GPL ROMs available[1], and the commonly used FreeMiNT
kernel is apparently a mix of GPL and BSD[2], and most anything open
source has been ported, and even packaged into RPMs[3], seems to me any
Atari ST series emulator should be okay in Extras. ARAnyM can even run
Linux/68k[4].

Anyone disagree? Do we need a FESCo blessing?

[1] http://emutos.sourceforge.net/en/index.htm
[2]
http://sparemint.atariforge.net/cgi-bin/cvsweb/freemint/COPYING?rev=1.2&content-type=text/x-cvsweb-markup
[3] http://sparemint.atariforge.net/sparemint/
[4] http://wiki.aranym.org/manual#linuxm68k_on_aranym
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