Re: Bug#531450: ITP: gmameui -- front-end for the arcade games emulator MAME
On Tue, Jun 2, 2009 at 6:32 PM, Loïc Martin <loic.martin3@gmail.com> wrote:
> Christian Marillat wrote:
>> Loïc Martin <loic.martin3@gmail.com> writes:
>>> * License : GPL2+
>> This package should go in contrib because he depends on non-free
>> packages (mame-*).
>>
>
> Right, since it depends on MAME (SDLMAME, XMAME - AFAIK only XMAME is in
> Debian atm), whose license is restrictive, I had put it in Section:
> non-free/games (debian/control). Was that the right thing (I must say I
> still have trouble with some Debian terms) or is there something else to do?
I note the GPLv2+ is probably not compatible with the MAME non-free
license. How does gmameui interact with MAME? Is the way it does that
likely to form a derivative work? If so we cannot distribute gmameui.
--
bye,
pabs
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