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Re: [GNU-linux-libre] Emulators
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Graziano |
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Re: [GNU-linux-libre] Emulators |
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Tue, 14 Dec 2010 08:31:10 +0100 |
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On Mon, 13 Dec 2010 14:35:19 -0800 (PST), "Jason Self"
<address@hidden> wrote:
Sam Geeraerts <address@hidden> wrote ...
part of the packages itself also seems non-free (2xSaImmx.asm
license)
The non-commercial clause certainly makes it non-free. "A free
program must be
available for commercial use, commercial development, and commercial
distribution." [1]
[1] http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.html
2xSaImmx.asm is a file contained in VisualBoy Advance, an emulator for
the Nintendo Gameboy and Gameboy Advance game consoles.
The file, as other people said, is not free software:
http://code.google.com/p/vba-ps3/source/browse/trunk/src/vba/filters/2xSaImmx.asm?spec=svnc768e08287e054c831a1c44aa9605f3986a58909&r=c768e08287e054c831a1c44aa9605f3986a58909
and so I think it should be removed from gNewSense, if present and
addeed to the Blacklist Software LibrePlanet Page.
Every emulator needs games ROMs to play. A game ROM is a dump of the
game that was inside a cabinet card or a console cartridge.
From a legal point of view you can download those ROMs only if you have
the original game but it remains a non free game.
I don't know if there are free software ROMs out there but I never
heard of them.
The point is I always heard rms talking about banning a program if it
*suggests* the use of non free software such as firefox proposing to
install Adobe Flash or linking a non free addon page.
It doesn't seem the case here but I may be wrong.
--
Graziano Sorbaioli
Founder, LibrePlanet Italia
http://sorbaioli.org
http://www.groups.fsf.org/wiki/Group:LibrePlanet_Italia
Re: [GNU-linux-libre] Emulators, Karl Goetz, 2010/12/31
Re: [GNU-linux-libre] Emulators, Karl Goetz, 2010/12/14