Warren Wilkinson <warrenwilkin...@gmail.com> writes: > Yoni Rabkin <y...@rabkins.net> writes: > >> What is the licensing situation surrounding this format? Has Nintendo >> released the specifications under a free license? > > I don't think Nintendo authored the spec. I'll explain: > >>From what I gather, the data in an SPC file is a 64 kb memory dump of > the audio chip on the SNES. > > I think that interested persons dumped this memory and then, wanting to > organize and standardize their collections, evolved a small binary > wrapper around it: http://www.snesmusic.org/files/spc_file_format.txt > But I haven't been able to find the history of this file format. > > So basically the file is a well documented header of unknown origin > prepended to a RAM dump of a chip.
Thank you for your patience on this. I don't know if you are on the emacs-devel mailing list. In case you are not, then here is what Richard Stallman wrote about the spc format: """ It is ugly, but it appears to be useful. If the format is documented and there is free code that fits our requirements for using it, I think it is good to do so. """ Therefore it is ok to include in Emms. -- "Cut your own wood and it will warm you twice"