Bug#95807: ITP: zsnes -- Free Super Nintendo emulator

[Wolfgang Sourdeau <wolfgang@contre.com>]

> I will upload the package to main. Many have suggested that it will
> need to go in contrib because Debian doesn't include SNES games. I
> find this argument absurd, and could waste a lot of time fighting it,
> but instead plan to bundle a small, free demo ROM in
> /usr/share/doc/examples to work around the issue.

This is not absurd. Emulators generally require proprietary data to be
useful. The Debian policy clearly states that such programs should be
put in contrib.

Requiring users to depend on proprietary data is not as bad as
requiring them to depend on proprietary programs. But it is still a
bad thing to do.

For what I am concerned, I would prefer seeing free software
games appear for the GNU system rather than emulators requiring
proprietary game roms. That is the whole philosophy of free software.
If you don't accept that, this means you either don't accept it or
either don't understand it.


Wolfgang