On 8/7/05, Philipp Kern <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > In the case of zsnes its practical function is to emulate a SNES > console, with all its hardware. It supports this completely without any > non-free data. It's only that most data for practical use is non-free. > > Take Wine. It emulates the Windows API quite well to run Windows > application. Now one could argue that most of them are non-free if you > look at them from a DFSG point of view. And the calculator etc. they > ship with Wine is also a set of dummy data which could calculate some > very basic equations but which primarily demonstrate that it runs > without crashing. (This is only from my limited knowledge back in the > old days when I occasionally used it.)
FWIW, this comparison to Wine has been made before[1] and it failed to convince the ftpmasters. [1] http://lists.debian.org/debian-legal/2004/07/msg00178.html Cheers, -- Andrew Saunders
