Re: [GNU-linux-libre] Adding some scummvm game(s) to the "List of software that does not respect the Free System Distribution Guidelines".

[Richard Stallman]

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  > Here we have a virtual machine / runtime environment (ScummVM), and
  > we're unsure if there is 100% free software programs that can run in it.

I think the question at hand is a little different from that.
I don't think that _some nonzero amount of free software that runs
on the environment is necessarily enough to outweigh the fact
that its main use is as a way to run nonfree software.

  >  And  I don't see why we necessarily need a
  > game or full featured program.

To justify distributing that virtual environment would require that it
be needed for software that is significant in ters of usage.

Omitting a prpgram from free distros does not prohibit its existence.
It does not stop users from getting it and installing it.  All this
decision would mean is that our free distros would not offer it to
people.

Most of what you've said in your message seems to be arguing
against something I am not advocating.

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