GNU bug report logs - #38360
Retroarch might violate FSDG

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Package: guix;

Reported by: Nicolò Balzarotti <anothersms <at> gmail.com>

Date: Mon, 25 Nov 2019 21:33:34 UTC

Severity: normal

Done: Tobias Geerinckx-Rice <me <at> tobias.gr>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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From: Nicolò Balzarotti <anothersms <at> gmail.com>
To: bug-guix <at> gnu.org
Subject: Retroarch might violate FSDG
Date: Sun, 24 Nov 2019 15:15:01 +0100

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Hello guix!

How I reported today on the IRC #guix channel:

We might have a problem on how retroarch is packaged. I've never used it,
tried just now. There's the "core download" section where it downloads
"$core.so.zip". Those are .so files:
.config/retroarch/cores/atari800_libretro.so:     file format elf64-x86-64.
I think we should either compile them and ship them or remove the download
section or something.
Also, when downloading cores there are no license info

nckx provided this [1] as a useful link. It seems that some of the plugins
are available for non-commercial projects only (so not compatible with the
GPLv3, used by retroarch).

It is something we should investigate and address, both for licensing
issues and for safety (and because we do not want to ship precompiled
binaries).

Thanks, Nicolò

[1] https://www.libretro.com/index.php/retroarch-license-violations

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