On Fri, Mar 22, 2002 at 01:24:07AM +0100, Maarten ter Huurne wrote:
> On Thursday 21 March 2002 23:58, you wrote:
> 
> I don't like the way they take advantage of the huge effort Marat put into 
> fMSX and also the contributions made by Alex Wulms, myself and several 
> others, without giving proper credit. I don't want cash, I don't even care 
> much if my name isn't mentioned, but someone else taking credit for work I 
> did makes me furious.
> 

I heard rumours about a new kind of MSX emulator being developed under
the GPL by some MSX-lovers. I suppose something like that can't happen
in such GPL'ed case.

> > Price of MSX Player. Windows version is free price. And Yokoi wants OPEN
> > SOUCE CODE LICENSE like GNU. But some program code writters donot like
> > it. They wants protect their program technology from other people.
> 
> He cannot license the code under GPL without permission from Marat. You 
> cannot give away something you don't own.

Is there a MSX emulator avialable that is GPL'ed and isn't in any way
derived from Marat's base ? 

> That is good news, but not a surprise really. In fact, Yamaha realised that 
> it is allowed to create a piece of software that is compatible with a piece 
> of hardware, when that software is written based on publicly available 
> information and/or reverse engineering.

But in the USA reverse engineering has became illegal due to the DMCA,
right?


David

Anybody knows some real good MSX emulators under Linux ? One that
preferably supports the so called 'moonblaster stereo' ?

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