Bug#535073: License Issues
Bad news everyone. Dolphin Emu has license issues that make it
non-distributable in its current form.
1) wiiuse is GPLv3+, but the rest of Dolphin is GPLv2 only.
Fortunately, wiiuse can be removed, or we might be able to make use of
the LGPLv3-noncommercial license that wiiuse also provides. The
upstream wiiuse author might be willing to add another license
exception to allow GPLv2, or otherwise free programs, to link with
wiiuse.
2) As I understand it, Debian requires that GPL programs that link
against non-free libraries have a license exception that specifically
allows them to link against those non-free libraries. Dolphin links
against nvidia-cg-toolkit libraries. I don't think we can just remove
that code. We'll need to get permission from upstream authors to link
against non-free libraries, and, as I understand it, we'll need to get
permission from all of them. Alternatively, we might be able to replace
nvidia-cg-toolkit with something free, which is something I had been
looking into before I knew that there were serious problems putting
dolphin into contrib.
I could use some help negotiating between the various parties.
-Brandon
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