Josh Triplett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hamish Moffatt wrote: >> If the emulators were extended to be able to fetch some basic ROM images >> off the internet by themselves (eg via HTTP), could they go in main? > > As an interesting additional point, this isn't just a hypothetical > scenario: the ZSNES emulator (in the Windows version, not yet ported to > the GNU/Linux version) has the ability to connect to the ConsoleClassix > (paid) service, download ROM images into memory (locking them on the > server so that no more ROM images exist than actual cartridges owned by > ConsoleClassix), and play them. All of those ROM images are still > proprietary and sourceless. Suppose the GNU/Linux version had this > functionality. Would we still put ZSNES in contrib? I don't know that > I have a consistent answer to that particular question.
If the capability is editable, so that people can try to circumvent the locking, or unlock and keep a copy, yes -- it's still Free, and still provides useful functionality even if part of it is an ad. -Brian -- Brian Sniffen [EMAIL PROTECTED]