vice in extras

Ralf Corsepius rc040203 at freenet.de
Mon Feb 28 07:09:28 UTC 2005


On Sun, 2005-02-27 at 20:03 +0100, Michael Schwendt wrote:
> On Sun, 27 Feb 2005 19:54:15 +0100, Lars wrote:
> 
> > hello
> > 
> > it would be nice to migrate the vice commodore emulator package from
> > fedora.us to the official extras repo.
> > 
> > in true oldschool-gaming-spirit,
> > L
> 
> It was decided to not include VICE because of legal concerns. Without the
> various "kernal" and "basic" ROM images, the VICE suite would be
> useless. Including tools and docs for getting the images elsewhere (like
> Debian do it), would not remove the legal concerns.
How that?

How can something be illegal for Fedora, if Debian doesn't consider it
illegal?

I always thought Debian was more religious about legal issues than
Fedora? Could it be that I am wrong?

Ralf





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