Hi Nicolò,
Nicolò Balzarotti <[email protected]> skribis:
> We don't provide them _directly_, but when loading the program the first
> option is "Load core". Then, first option again, is "Download core". Here
> you have a list of "proprietary" .so.zip downloads. Retroarch, as far as I
> understand, is encouraging the download of those programs, with no
> licensing information (see [1]). I don't know if this is ok or if we can
> patch it (hiding the "Download core" menu maybe?).
Oh, that sounds pretty bad. In my view, it’s a problem:
1. from a user freedom viewpoint, because the user might unwillingly
find themselves downloading non-free code, and thus Guix is not
fulfilling its mission;
2. from a security and engineering viewpoint, because we certainly
don’t want users to run code from arbitrary binaries downloaded
from the net.
I think it definitely needs to be fixed.
> Debian _does_ provide (from their package manager) some o the cores [2],
> two of them with the non-free tag.
> If we patch retroarch to hide the download menu, to make it functional we
> should also package some free cores.
That sounds like a plan.
Would you be able to help with that? Hopefully there are patches we can
take from Debian, no?
If nobody can work on it in a timely fashion, I would propose to remove
retroarch until someone can do this work.
WDYT?
Thanks,
Ludo’.
