On Tuesday 19 July 2005 03:27 am, Michael K. Edwards wrote: > On 7/18/05, Ryan Schultz <schultz.ryan@gmail.com> wrote: > > On Monday 18 July 2005 11:12 pm, you wrote: > > > >FWIW, I would not touch SNEeSe or any fragment derived from it with a > > > >ten-foot pole unless they can tell you where sneese.dat came from and > > > >what's in it. > > > > > > Well file(1) said it is an allegro datafile, so I apt-get'ed > > > liballegro-dev and try extracting it using 'dat -x SNEESE.DAT *'. > > > It contains two images. One is the startup screen the other is the > > > image of a joypad used presumably in keyboard setup. > > > > > > Ryan, unless there are other legal issues I think it is safe to > > > proceed. > > > > (resending to the lists, whoops) > > > > Yes, just a few hours ago I got a response from upstream saying the same > > thing, using almost exactly the same process too :- ) Not sure how some > > images got confused with a core from another emulator. > > I'm delighted to have been wrong. :-) > > Which is not to say that there mightn't be other legal issues with > SNEeSe; but that's true of any work of authorship, especially those > created by reverse engineering, and Debian tends to leave the sanity > checks up to the maintainer and ftpmasters. The mere fact that is a > game system emulator presents no legal obstacle, and other spot-checks > within the code (the current version and v0.16f, apparently the last > released by the original author) are reassuring. You might try to > establish a relationship with current SNEeSe upstream so you don't > have to maintain your own fork of the sound library alone. > > Cheers, > - Michael > (IANAL, TINLA) libopenspc is maintained by a member of SNEeSe upstream (Brad Martin) already, actually -- this isn't my code, I'm just packaging it :- ) -- Ryan Schultz -> floating point exception: divide by cucumber
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