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It's related to something I was told in Fedora's legal issues mailing list. Unlike Debian, Fedora doesn't carry emulators because of legal threats from ...

... know the real reason behind it: It's related to something I was told in Fedora's legal issues mailing list. Unlike Debian, Fedora doesn't carry emulators because of legal threats ...

... Why does the quantity matter? It's related to something I was told in Fedora's legal issues mailing list. Unlike Debian, Fedora doesn't carry emulators because of legal threats ...

... has been doing for decades now, except in this case, at least it's legal and more malleable on the user side. On the plus side, we potentially ... (See what I wrote earlier about Red Hat's exclusion thereof from Fedora .) But on the minus side, maintainers of ROM categorization tools ...

... unlikely) FCEUX (SDL) is packaged in Debian and Ubuntu. It's not in Fedora because before the compos, Red Hat's legal department decided that there weren't enough freely distributable NES ROMs to make a ...

... rely on what are essentially the Debian Free Software Guidelines. (Fedora uses a slightly reworded version called the Open Source Definition ... Calloway, Fedora Engineering Manager at Red Hat, on Fedora's legal mailing list in November 2010, part 1 and part 2 ) On May 3, 2016, ...

... System hardware is copyrighted, in order to avoid potential legal problems in distributing an emulator. To avoid having to reexplain ... by or on behalf of the ROMs' copyright owner. But the Debian and Fedora projects differ on one point. In Debian, you can sudo apt-get install ...

... official repositories to actually work. :roll: Let me guess: You're on Fedora, and you're feeling Red Hat's fear of Nintendo's legal department. Here on Debian family distributions, I can just sudo apt-get install fceux ...

... sidetracked by the lack of a decent NSF player Let me guess: You're on Fedora, and you're feeling Red Hat's fear of Nintendo's legal department. Here on Debian family distributions, I can just sudo apt-get install fceux ...

... and such exists without N doing anything about it then? Nintendo has legal rights against clones of its consoles for 20 years after a new system ... use is "substantial" is for a judge to decide. Members of the Fedora legal list believe there is not yet a large enough library of freeware ...

Xubuntu has FCEUX (SDL version) without debugging, and unfortunately, 14.04 LTS ended up with FCEUX 2.2.1 whose mapper support had just undergone a problematic reorganization. Fedora excludes FCEUX because Red Hat is afraid of Nintendo's legal department.

... for Ctrl+R in my editor and FCEUX (Windows) in Wine for debugging. Fedora doesn't package any console emulators because Red Hat fears Nintendo's legal department. OS X native emulators tend to rely on a payware "Emulator Enhancer" ...

... For compiling C programs often I just use a shell script. Someone on fedora-legal appears to think the noninfringing use is not clearly substantial, comparing hundreds ...

... NES games outnumber homebrew NES games to such an extent that Red Hat's legal department won't let Red Hat include a freely licensed NES emulator in the Fedora repository.

It's not always whether it's legal as much as whether you want to avoid being sued in the first place. Avoiding ... cost of a trial and an appeal is why Red Hat leaves game console emulators out of Fedora even if ROMs under a free software license exist for the emulated platform. ...