[Fedora-legal-list] THOR Public License (based on MPL)
Dan Horák
dan at danny.cz
Wed Nov 19 18:56:41 UTC 2008
Jason L Tibbitts III píše v St 19. 11. 2008 v 12:36 -0600:
> This package brings up a couple of other issues.
>
> Firstly, it's an emulator, but it doesn't seem to need any original
> ROMs to run because they're written their own work-alikes. I'm
> assuming this is OK, but I guess it's worth asking.
>
I have made the same assumption before trying to package it officially.
> Secondly, those work-alike ROMs are included in pre-assembled format,
> with the source being made available separately. What are our
> obligations with respect to providing the source to these ROMs? And,
> perhaps offtopic for this list, how does this jibe with the general
> Fedora "build everything from source" goal?
Now there is a technical problem to build the ROM, because we don't have
a package for the cc65 cross-compiler environment. But IMHO it should
not be required to build such non-native content from sources assuming
its license is free enough.
Dan
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