Bug 4176

Summary: Maybe move VBAM to regular Fedora repositories.
Product: Fedora Reporter: Audrey Toskin <audrey>
Component: vbamAssignee: Jeremy Newton <alexjnewt>
Status: RESOLVED FIXED    
Severity: normal    
Priority: P5    
Version: unspecified   
Hardware: All   
OS: GNU/Linux   
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Description Audrey Toskin 2016-08-06 04:17:25 CEST
A few months ago, it was announced that the Fedora Project's policy on game emulators had changed. The new rules are summarized here:

    https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Licensing:SoftwareTypes#Emulators

And here's the announcement and ensuing discussion:

    https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/OCIB2WAZ6DF3HJZV2OWYOTNRTUZZ6VRX/

...Basically, game emulators are now allowed in Fedora, as long the emulator itself and its dependencies use an acceptable license. So now the rules are pretty much the same as any other package. Since VBAM is in the Free repositories on RPM Fusion, I'm guessing that means VBAM would qualify to be moved to the mainstream Fedora repos. Right?

What do you think?

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(I'll be refiling this report for the other game emulators, so sorry if you see this twice.)
Comment 1 Jeremy Newton 2016-09-27 18:05:21 CEST
I would like to look into this after I upgrade vbam to 2.0 beta.

https://github.com/visualboyadvance-m/visualboyadvance-m/releases/tag/VBA-M_Beta_2

Note that there are some issues with wxgtk-sdl that I would like to resolve first.
Comment 2 Jeremy Newton 2016-12-10 07:45:27 CET
Work in progress:

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1403423

It packages fine, but there are some emulation bugs I need to iron out first.
Comment 3 Jeremy Newton 2016-12-11 22:11:58 CET
I've ironed out the issues with beta2. If anyone is interested in reviewing this package, please feel free.
Comment 4 Jeremy Newton 2017-01-19 02:16:08 CET
The review has been approved! This has been accepted into Fedora. Bug #4423 is a request to untag it from rpmfusion.

Thanks!