[Bug 478806] Review Request: simh - A highly portable, multi-system emulator

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Tom "spot" Callaway <tcallawa at redhat.com> changed:

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--- Comment #9 from Tom "spot" Callaway <tcallawa at redhat.com>  2009-10-06 13:51:51 EDT ---
Citing the emulator rule:

"If it requires ROMs (or image files in any format) of copyrighted or patented
material to be useful (and the owners of those copyrights and patents have not
given their express written permission), then it's not permitted."

In reviewing this, the intent from upstream is:

"The goal of the project is to create highly portable system simulators and to
publish them as freeware on the Internet, with freely available copies of
significant or representative software."

Also, there is a significant amount of software (many versions of UNIX) for
this emulator which are under Fedora acceptable licenses, and none of the
software prominently available seems to be stolen/pirated.

So, it passes that test.

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The licensing is mostly MIT, but there is also some GPL+ (literally, v1+) code
in there, notably in AltairZ80/. The license tag should be:

License: MIT and GPL+

(each target is compiled into its own binary, so only AltairZ80 is GPL+)

*****

Until the firmware license for the IBM1130 is resolved, please leave it out
(and the VAX firmware). Since they are removed, I see no other legal issues
here. Lifting FE-Legal.

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