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It was my understanding ROMs should not be in maemo.org repositories.
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Maybe we could list the suspected packages to make a revision with the developers.
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Originally Posted by Flandry
We do.
If we have a strict anti-piracy policy
why do the repos contain "plenty of copyrighted home computer rom images", proprietary calculator ROM images, &tc?
I remember reading that we're not going for complete DFSG compliance, but what, then?
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It's better to describe these as "proprietary home computer rom images" instead of "copyrighted home computer rom images".
Most of the software in the repository is copyrighted, but it's legal to distribute it when it's open-source licensed rather than proprietary. Terminology matters.
Most of the software in the repository is copyrighted, but it's legal to distribute it when it's open-source licensed rather than proprietary. Terminology matters.
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Originally Posted by lma
Yes, i'm familiar with that but understandably confused due to some very popular exceptions by well known developers.
We do.
Anyway, as a point of curiosity, if an app fails to pass testing because of this particular point, does it in actual practice get removed from the repository?
That's orthogonal to this. Closed-source in extras (non-free) may be fine, copyright infringement isn't.
- Free redistribution.
But obviously not the part that was considered optional here.
Originally Posted by eiffel
Yes, it was a third-party quote.
It's better to describe these as "proprietary home computer rom images" instead of "copyrighted home computer rom images".
Most of the software in the repository is copyrighted, but it's legal to distribute it when it's open-source licensed rather than proprietary. Terminology matters.
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There are proprietary/copyrighted ROMs in the repos?!? I wasn't aware of that. If yes, they should be, of course, removed. However emulators do not break any law out there (as long as their copyright holder has nothing against them being in the repos) so those should stay.
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We could probably do with details/examples on exactly what packages are breaking the rules here - There are plenty of emulators in the repos, which are perfectly fine to be there, but to my knowledge none of them actually come with the ROMs included?
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Originally Posted by Flandry
If we have a strict anti-piracy policy, why do the repos contain "plenty of copyrighted home computer rom images", proprietary calculator ROM images, &tc?
If that's a quote from somewhere, where? Apparently somebody has a list of packages, which packages are the problem here?
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Edited above post but for visibility but here's the reason i came to think perhaps our policy was a bit permissive:
And it really doesn't take too much digging in games to find other offenders. Here's the example given by the person cited above:
And it really doesn't take too much digging in games to find other offenders. Here's the example given by the person cited above:
Originally Posted by Master of Gizmo
The vice emulator (being just one example) is distributed by maemo.org incl. the complete set of rom images of the entire family of commodore 8 bit home computers incl. all rom images used in peripherals like the floppy drives. We are talking about the entire machine code of an entire generation of computers from the 80s.
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While that particular invocation of the topic had ulterior motives, the point is still a valid one, and it is this:
If we have a strict anti-piracy policy, why do the repos contain "plenty of copyrighted home computer rom images", proprietary calculator ROM images, &tc?
I remember reading that we're not going for complete DFSG compliance, but what, then?
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