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by tepples
Thu Mar 28, 2013 5:04 am
Forum: Homebrew Projects
Topic: EMUya - A emulation store for homebrew NES development
Replies: 121
Views: 35532

Re: EMUya - A emulation store for homebrew NES development

all emulators are legal AFAIK. It's not always whether it's legal as much as whether you want to avoid being ... 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.
by Bregalad
Wed Jan 23, 2013 10:22 am
Forum: SNESdev
Topic: Reproductions...Does Nintendo / Sega care?
Replies: 35
Views: 8110

Re: Reproductions...Does Nintendo / Sega care?

Fedora does not package NES emulators because Red Hat's legal department believes the noninfringing use for NES emulators is not "substantial" enough for a Betamax ...
by tepples
Wed Jan 23, 2013 7:16 am
Forum: SNESdev
Topic: Reproductions...Does Nintendo / Sega care?
Replies: 35
Views: 8110

Re: Reproductions...Does Nintendo / Sega care?

... salable product. And the demo was still released as a gratis download. Fedora does not package NES emulators because Red Hat's legal department believes the noninfringing use for NES emulators is not "substantial" ...
by FinalZero
Fri Jan 07, 2011 8:29 am
Forum: Newbie Help Center
Topic: Hello World
Replies: 267
Views: 61219

... you part of why I don't bite newbies: I want to help demonstrate the legality of NES emulators. To be legal under US law, a copying technology ... noninfringing use. Debian (and hence Ubuntu) accepts NES emulators, but Fedora doesn't because someone on fedora-legal thinks the three dozen or ...
by tepples
Mon Jan 03, 2011 11:18 am
Forum: Newbie Help Center
Topic: Hello World
Replies: 267
Views: 61219

... you part of why I don't bite newbies : I want to help demonstrate the legality of NES emulators. To be legal under US law, a copying technology ... noninfringing use. Debian (and hence Ubuntu) accepts NES emulators, but Fedora doesn't because someone on fedora-legal thinks the three dozen or ...
by tepples
Wed Dec 15, 2010 2:34 pm
Forum: NESdev
Topic: Assembler of your choice
Replies: 38
Views: 24725

... EFP , a Free NES game made with xa65. And even that's not enough for Fedora. Someone on fedora-legal appears to think the noninfringing use is not clearly substantial, comparing hundreds ...