Evan Prodromou wrote:
I guess I'm just not sure I buy that an emulator is materially different from a script interpreter, DFSG-wise.
Ok, tack on 'console', and the fact that 99.9% of console 'programs' (ROMs) out there are extremely undistributable, as opposed to something like a Macintosh emulator for which there exists a good amount of software you can download, and I think the difference becomes more apparent. Same with something like a script interpreter or an image viewer. It's far, far easier to find free (as in beer) content for those than for a console emulator. I *think* that's the reason that console emulators end up in contrib instead of main.