On Mon, Aug 18, 2003 at 12:48:08PM -0400, Bijan Soleymani wrote: > On Mon, Aug 18, 2003 at 05:02:12PM +0100, Colin Watson wrote:
[Your attributions are broken; I've reinserted the missing one.] > > On Mon, Aug 18, 2003 at 11:38:09AM -0400, Bijan Soleymani wrote: > > > This applies to a lesser extent to various emulators and game engines. > > > > Those are usually because no free ROMs are available. > > Here's a site with source code to about 160 gameboy advanced programs: > http://www.gbadev.org/sources_cd.html I downloaded a random sample of five of these: four had no licence at all (which means you get the legal default, namely "all rights reserved"), and one said that you weren't allowed to sell it. When I said free I meant DFSG-free, not just "no charge" or "comes with source code". > Here's a plublic domain rom archive: > http://www.zophar.net/roms/roms.phtml These mostly don't seem to come with source. Again, those that I found that did didn't have clearly free licences. > This site only contains the better roms, but there are many more all > over the place. If you can demonstrate that the package is clearly useful with only DFSG-free software, I'm sure that the maintainer would consider moving it to main, anyway. Cheers, -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
