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

[David Nusinow <krmt1984@ucla.edu>]

On Sun, Nov 17, 2002 at 04:09:23PM -0800, Craig Dickson wrote:
> 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.
It looks to me that the GPL'ed files were written as an extension to the
core. The core (non-free part) is actually the nintendo CPU emulation.
Everything else is free, either GPL or Clarified Artistic.

Either way, I don't want to be packaging another non-free program,
especially when FCEU is available, so I've actually already closed this
ITP. Another prospective developer ITP'ed FCEU in September and we're
discussing how to work together to get FCEU ready to go in to the
archive.

 - David Nusinow
   krmt1984@ucla.edu