Announcing Dribble a new addon repo for Fedora Extras users

Hans de Goede j.w.r.degoede at hhs.nl
Wed Oct 18 08:09:03 UTC 2006



Tom 'spot' Callaway wrote:
> On Tue, 2006-10-17 at 05:32 -0500, Callum Lerwick wrote:
>> 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?
> 
> No disagreement here. This is fine for Fedora.
> 

Okay,

I've contacted the Dribble maintainer and he will submit it to FE (as
time permits he is rather busy atm). Since he isn't an FE contributer
yet I'll sponsor him (he will also be packaging and submitting the GPL
ROMs and FreeMiNT).

Regards,

Hans





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