Re: Visualboy Advance question.
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- Subject: Re: Visualboy Advance question.
- From: Nathanael Nerode <neroden@twcny.rr.com>
- Date: Mon, 12 Jul 2004 02:00:48 -0400
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Evan Prodromou wrote:
> On Tue, 2004-06-22 at 19:02, Josh Triplett wrote:
>
>> While I agree that it is not necessarily required that a Free package
>> Depend on some piece of Free data for it to operate on, I do believe
>> that if there is _no_ Free data for the package to run with, and that
>> data is required in order to operate, then the package must go in
>> contrib until at least one free piece of data is available.
>
> I just don't think that software Depends: on the data it manipulates the
> way that it Depends: on, say, libraries or other programs.
It really does, you know. The dependee libraries and other programs are
precisely as replaceable as the data. Some are easier to replace than
others, of course, but that's not down to the library/program/data
distinction.
> It also seems terribly unhackerly. I mean, heck: if I'd like to create
> some Free Gameboy ROMs, I'd want to do it on a Free operating system.
Well, everything in 'contrib' is DFSG-free, you know.
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