For your information, the recent MAME situation has spawned a
discussion regarding free emulators for nonfree ROMS and the
role of free distros with respect to those packages. I think
this currently is an ethically gray area that concerns Parabola
too. Jump in if you want to voice your opinions:
https://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/gnu-linux-libre/2016-03/msg00008.html
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De : Jean Louis <[email protected]>
Objet : Re: [GNU-linux-libre] MAME
Date : Tue, 29 Mar 2016 16:12:34 +0200
À : Workgroup for fully free GNU/Linux distributions
<[email protected]>
Hello,
It would be good to nicely understand the issues I have pointed to in
this discussion:
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/guix-devel/2016-03/msg01213.html
and to seek legal advice by an attorney of FSF in regards to trademark
usage.
In regards to free software distribution guidelines, as written here:
http://www.gnu.org/distros/free-system-distribution-guidelines.html
I don't agree that MAME should be included, including many of other
emulators, in the free software distributions, for reasons above
explained in the discussion I have started.
Jean Louis
On Tue, Mar 29, 2016 at 11:08:56AM -0300, Felipe Sanches wrote:
I can see good usages of the MAME codebase for documentation of the
history of computer hardware. (I do it VERY often).
Or for running homebrew free implementations of games on the emulator
(I already did that myself a couple times).
It seems like the source package is undisputably free, while the
binary package is also free, but inducing users to download and run
non-free ROMs.
That's also the case for any other free-software emulator, though.
Any
idea how we've dealt with this in cases such as dosbox, and other
free
software emulators?
On Tue, Mar 29, 2016 at 11:05 AM, Felipe Sanches
<[email protected]> wrote:
> The codebase is now fully free. But the vast majority of games
> (perhaps all of them) require non-free ROMs. So this is a special
case
> that requires some thought.
>
> On Mon, Mar 28, 2016 at 8:57 PM, <[email protected]> wrote:
>> Hello
>>
>> The MAME project has recently re-licensed the project to GPL2
(with GPL3
>> parts). It is now free software. http://mamedev.org/?p=422
>>
>> Please consider updating the entry here to reflect this, since it
is now out
>> of date:
>>
https://libreplanet.org/wiki/List_of_software_that_does_not_respect_the_Free_System_Distribution_Guidelines#MAME
>>
>> Thank you!
>>
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