On Mon, May 31, 2010 at 5:24 AM, Philipp Kern <tr...@philkern.de> wrote:
> On 2010-05-30, brian m. carlson <sand...@crustytoothpaste.ath.cx> wrote:
>> The difference is that those tools provide a reasonable level of
>> functionality with free data.  Weather information is in the public
>> domain because there's no originality to it.  Most programs that display
>> lyrics or album covers are music players, and there is free music
>> (available in our archive, no less) that they can usefully play.
>
> Console emulators like zsnes are in main, I think because there used to be
> at least one free ROM it can be used with (be it useful or not).

xmame-sdl is in contrib, though. I find it hard to draw the line
between main and contrib unless there's non-free depends, it's all
very subjective.

Regards,


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