Re: RFS: Mupen64 -- Nintendo 64 emulator and plugins
On Tuesday 02 May 2006 19:57, Miriam Ruiz wrote:
> What's the legal status of the emulator? Does it include any copyrighted
> ROMs or things like that? Patents?
It did contain a lot of nasty stuff -- files with ambiguous copyrights, binary
ROMs (demos), etc., but I removed everything I spotted like that when I
repackaged upstream's source.
> I'd really love to see a N64 emulator in Debian, It just scares me a bit
> that I don't really know what's the legal status of console emulators. Does
> anybody know for sure? Am I just saying nonsense?
I'm also the maintainer for PCSX, a Playstation emulator, so I've gotten
blessings from the ftpmasters and debian-legal for that sort of thing.
Shouldn't be a problem, unless Mupen64 contains some stealth legal issue that
I didn't notice when I repackaged.
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Ryan Schultz
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