Hamish Moffatt wrote: > If the emulators were extended to be able to fetch some basic ROM images > off the internet by themselves (eg via HTTP), could they go in main? As an interesting additional point, this isn't just a hypothetical scenario: the ZSNES emulator (in the Windows version, not yet ported to the GNU/Linux version) has the ability to connect to the ConsoleClassix (paid) service, download ROM images into memory (locking them on the server so that no more ROM images exist than actual cartridges owned by ConsoleClassix), and play them. All of those ROM images are still proprietary and sourceless. Suppose the GNU/Linux version had this functionality. Would we still put ZSNES in contrib? I don't know that I have a consistent answer to that particular question. - Josh Triplett
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