On Tue, Jun 08, 2004 at 09:58:57AM -0600, Benjamin Cutler wrote: > Humberto Massa wrote: > >Well, it is if you yank off the non-GPL parts. If you meant the > >_pristine_, untouched source tarball, yes, it's not distributable. > > > >If gens is still usable/useful without the non-free parts, you can > >package it this way (/vide/ all the flam^W healthy discussions about > >the non-free parts in the kernel over this list). > > > > The mpg123 portions would probably be replacable with SMPEG with some > work, but Starscream is the main CPU emulation core, so, no, that won't > work. MAYBE I could figure out some way to split it off as a non-free > shared library and have gens depend on it... that might be worth looking > into. No amount of hoop-jumping will help you here. It's still clearly a derivative work of starscream. m68k is not a difficult chip to emulate, and there are plenty of other emulators for it out there. There's probably something which could replace it, resulting in a package which is both distributable and DFSG-free (given that mpg123 is easy to replace). -- .''`. ** Debian GNU/Linux ** | Andrew Suffield : :' : http://www.debian.org/ | `. `' | `- -><- |
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