On Mon, Jul 12, 2004 at 05:24:12PM -0700, Josh Triplett wrote: > Nathanael Nerode wrote: > > J.B. Nicholson-Owens wrote: > >>Matthew Palmer wrote: > >>>The litmus test here is "a significant amount of functionality", not > >>>"will refuse to work at all without it", although that's a fairly good > >>>description of a console without a ROM. > >> > >>Would one ROM cut it, then? > > > > Yes, in a word! Or, indeed, a compiler designed to create such ROMs. > > Given that many ROMs are written/modified in machine code with a hex > editor, I would go as far as to say that if we have a reasonable belief > that even one person will ever use the emulator for the purposes of > running a hand-written ROM, then the emulator should go to main. I lean the other way. If it's so easy, we should be able to package a trivial one for demonstration purposes. We could even ship it as part of the emulator package itself. Again, this is not really a DFSG or debian-legal issue, it's a Debian Policy issue. -- G. Branden Robinson | Never attribute to malice that Debian GNU/Linux | which can be adequately explained branden@debian.org | by stupidity. http://people.debian.org/~branden/ | -- Hanlon's Razor
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