[Fedora-packaging] can Blargg's NTSC libraries be included in fedora ?

Tom "spot" Callaway tcallawa at redhat.com
Tue Aug 5 15:22:37 UTC 2008


On Wed, 2008-08-06 at 01:13 +1000, David Timms wrote:
> I am wondering if the following video processing libs could be included
> in Fedora itself ?
> nes_ntsc
> sms_ntsc
> snes_ntsc
> These "perform NTSC video signal processing on an image, giving a result
> similar to that of the game console connected to a TV and unlike that of
> a simple palette-based image". To do this it would appear to need to
> understand the hardware chips used in such consoles, but I find no
> mention of patented or so techniques.
> 
> For eg: nes_ntsc, in it's current incarnation, require or BR only Fedora
> packages. An out of Fedora game console emulator could use this library
> to add 80's realizm to the Emu.
> 
> The author has released under the LGPL v2.1 or later. Would it be
> acceptable to be in Fedora ?

I see no reason why not.

~spot




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