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| From: | J.B. Nicholson |
| Subject: | Re: [GNU-linux-libre] MAME |
| Date: | Tue, 29 Mar 2016 09:10:27 -0500 |
| User-agent: | Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:38.0) Gecko/20100101 Icedove/38.7.0 |
address@hidden wrote:
The MAME project has recently re-licensed the project to GPL2 (with GPL3 parts). It is now free software. http://mamedev.org/?p=422
Wouldn't this change make MAME free software that depends on nonfree software in order to run?
As I understand it, the programs MAME emulates are nonfree. If so, this should raise a warning because MAME is an instance of what was known as the Java Trap (https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/java-trap.html) -- a free program with nonfree dependencies.
Are there any free software programs MAME emulates?
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