Re: Bug#168589: ITP: xfuse - a ZX Spectrum and TC2048 emulator
On Tue, Nov 12, 2002 at 01:54:43PM +0000, Edmund GRIMLEY EVANS wrote:
> Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>:
> > Hm, it seems that we're actually a surprisingly large part of the way to
> > being DFSG-free here. There are two stumbling blocks:
> >
> > * There's no explicit permission to distribute as part of things that
> > aren't emulators. This is more serious than it looks:
>
> > * The charging thing. Upon further examination of DFSG 1, I observe
>
> You forgot to mention:
>
> * The lack of source.
That can probably be worked around:
/usr/share/doc/spectrum-roms/zx82.htm
> > Assuming my understanding is correct, what would be the best strategy
> > for approaching Amstrad to make the minimal change in order to have
> > Spectrum ROMs in main?
>
> I don't see any evidence that Amstrad want the ROMs to be free. The
> best approach is probably to ask them whether they might make the
> source code available. If they say "definitely not" then you don't
> need to waste any time discussing the other points.
As I said elsewhere, they can't make it available, because they no
longer have it (um, I can't seem to find where I read that, so I might
have to play the "proof by personal communication" card and say that
Philip Kendall told me that in the pub ...). Third parties may be able
to reconstruct it.
--
Colin Watson [cjwatson@flatline.org.uk]
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