Re: RFS: Dolphin Emu: Nintendo Gamecube and Wii emulator
Thanks Luke. I'll look into getting those license issues resolved.
Is there anybody here who can help me with that? I don't have much
experience with diplomacy.
-Brandon
On Sat, 04 Dec 2010 20:00:42 -0500
Luke Faraone <lfaraone@debian.org> wrote:
> Thanks for taking the initiative and packaging this. I'd love to see
> it in Debian in some form.
>
> Vcs-Svn and Vcs-Browser are supposed to point to the VCS repository
> containing your packaging, not upstream's source repository.
>
> dolpin-emu's (and -doc's) short description could probably be better
> revised as "a Nintendo Gamecube and Wii emulator". In -doc's long
> description, settle on Dolphin or dolphin, don't use them
> interchangeably.
>
> More importantly, I suspect dolpin-emu may not be legally
> redistributable by Debian under the GNU GPL, since:
>
> A) Some files, such
> as ./Source/Core/VideoCommon/Src/HiresTextures.cpp, are GPLv2 only,
> yet others, such as ./Source/Core/wiiuse/Src/wiiuse/Src/* are GPLv3+.
> Wiiuse is also available as LGPLv3+, but only for non-commercial
> purposes.
>
> B) Your program links against cg, which is non-free. No linking
> exception is provided by upstream to allow linking to non-free
> applications in the license.
>
> You should get this clarified by upstream before the package would be
> accepted.
>
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