Re: Bug#168589: ITP: xfuse - a ZX Spectrum and TC2048 emulator
On Tue, Nov 12, 2002 at 08:42:12AM +0000, Jules Bean wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 12, 2002 at 09:27:15AM +0100, Radovan Garabik wrote:
> > On Sun, Nov 10, 2002 at 08:49:21PM +0000, Darren Salt wrote:
> > > Package: wnpp
> > > Severity: wishlist
> > >
> > > Package name : xfuse
> > >
> > ...
> >
> > >
> > > It depends on spectrum-roms and must therefore go in contrib.
> >
> > We had a discussion abour ZX ROMS some time ago.
> > Amstrad allows the ROMs i(at least the Spectrum ones) to
> > be freely used in emulators, therefore there is no need
> > for this to go to contrib.
>
> If amstrad allows them to be freely used, (only) then they are
> non-free.
>
> If Amstrad includes source code, and allows modification and
> redistribution etc, and all the other things we ask for in the DFSG,
> only then are they free.
Amstrad allows modification and redistribution. There is no source code,
of course (there probably never was one)
>
> If they are non-free, then xfuse must be contrib..
There are also replacement ROMs available, some of them may be free
(I have no further knowledge about them, though)
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