On Tue, Nov 12, 2002 at 08:42:12AM +0000, Jules Bean wrote: > On Tue, Nov 12, 2002 at 09:27:15AM +0100, Radovan Garabik wrote: > > On Sun, Nov 10, 2002 at 08:49:21PM +0000, Darren Salt wrote: > > > Package: wnpp > > > Severity: wishlist > > > > > > Package name : xfuse > > > > > ... > > > > > > > > It depends on spectrum-roms and must therefore go in contrib. > > > > We had a discussion abour ZX ROMS some time ago. > > Amstrad allows the ROMs i(at least the Spectrum ones) to > > be freely used in emulators, therefore there is no need > > for this to go to contrib. > > If amstrad allows them to be freely used, (only) then they are > non-free. > > If Amstrad includes source code, and allows modification and > redistribution etc, and all the other things we ask for in the DFSG, > only then are they free.
Amstrad allows modification and redistribution. There is no source code, of course (there probably never was one) > > If they are non-free, then xfuse must be contrib.. There are also replacement ROMs available, some of them may be free (I have no further knowledge about them, though) -- ----------------------------------------------------------- | Radovan Garabík http://melkor.dnp.fmph.uniba.sk/~garabik/ | | __..--^^^--..__ garabik @ melkor.dnp.fmph.uniba.sk | ----------------------------------------------------------- Antivirus alert: file .signature infected by signature virus. Hi! I'm a signature virus! Copy me into your signature file to help me spread!
