On Aug 6, 2005, at 5:22 PM, Andrew Saunders wrote:
So even if you managed to build it entirely with free tools at some later date, this issue alone would relegate it to contrib until suitably free data is available - or at least, that's been the current practice for e.g. emulators such as zsnes which require non-free roms.
I still disagree as zsnes does not *require* non-free ROMs. One could write a free ROM, and one presenting the Debian logo is provided. It does not depend on any non-free system ROM to run correctly. There is also a bug report about this: #313137.
What's debian-legal's view on this? Kind regards, Philipp Kern