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2010-03-30 , 14:11
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As I understand the law (and it varies between states):
1. Emulators that contain no propriety code are generally allowed. Strictly they shouldn't be, but they are usually for such old systems that little attention is paid. The system part of the ROM comes in the ROM files which you can acquire from other sources than TMO.
2. Emulators that contain propriety code (e.g. a PSX emu with built in system ROM files) would be disallowed.

In the Maemo.org repos there are only types of 1. emulators AFAIK
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