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Re: Bug#169185: ITP: fakenes -- Portable NES Emulator



On Fri, Nov 15, 2002 at 03:30:35AM -0800, David Nusinow wrote:
> On close inspection of all the sources, there's actually a mix of
> three different licenses. There's the clarified artistic, there's some
> GPL files, and there's some files with no license other than "You may
> not distribute this software commercially. Please notify me, if you make
> any changes to this file."
> 
> I was hoping that this would be a totally free program, but apparently
> it will have to go in to non-free unless the upstream or someone else
> decides to rewrite the core functionality with the restricted license.

If those non-free files are code and gets linked to the GPL bits, we
shouldn't distribute this at all.

Jordi
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