Copyright on 'non-creative' data?
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Ok, more digging around for a useful emulation related program that's
unencumbered by non-free crap. I think I found one called ucon64[0],
self-billed as the 'Swiss Army Knife of emulation utilities'. I've actually
been using it for a while and for some reason it didn't even cross my mind
to check if it was workable in Debian, as I'd installed it when I was still
pretty new to Debian and wasn't even thinking about packaging my own stuff
yet. Anyway... the program itself is GPL, no problems there. However, on the
same site, they have several zip files that are basically rom databases
produced by running the program on directories full of ROMs, allowing you to
match ROM images by their checksums. I'd like to package those alongside
ucon64, but they lack true licenses. The databases constitute effort
(because the creators had to assemble an entire directory of ROMs), but in
my opinion, no creativity (because all that was involved in the creation was
running ucon64 over said directories). Are they still covered by copyright
law in that case?
Thoughts?
[0] http://ucon64.sourceforge.net/
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