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

[Craig Dickson <crdic@pacbell.net>]

Jordi Mallach wrote:

> > 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.

I think it depends which is the "core". If the GPL files were written as
an extension to the non-free core, then I don't think it's a problem. If
the reverse, or some other odd agglomeration, then it probably shouldn't
be distributed by Debian or anyone else.

Craig