On Mon, Dec 04, 2000 at 08:25:22AM +1100, Hamish Moffatt wrote: > Well, we don't allow emulators without open-source ROMs into main, > eg vice, the Commodore emulator, is in contrib and the description > clearly indicates you must supply your own ROM. I don't see how > plex is different -- it's an emulator which needs ROMs. But the problem with vice isn't non-opensource ROMs, the problem is non-distributable ROMs. If we could distribute the ROMs with vice, then that would be more pertinent. Personally I wouldn't permit any program part (be it ROM, png, wav or docs*) in main that wasn't editable, but treatment of that is still an open question in Debian. * As opposed to RFC's, standards, licenses and the like. -- David Starner - dstarner98@aasaa.ofe.org http://dvdeug.dhis.org Looking for a Debian developer in the Stillwater, Oklahoma area to sign my GPG key
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