On Mon, Jul 12, 2004 at 05:24:12PM -0700, Josh Triplett wrote:
> Nathanael Nerode wrote:
> > J.B. Nicholson-Owens wrote:
> >>Matthew Palmer wrote:
> >>>The litmus test here is "a significant amount of functionality", not
> >>>"will refuse to work at all without it", although that's a fairly good
> >>>description of a console without a ROM.
> >>
> >>Would one ROM cut it, then?
> > 
> > Yes, in a word!  Or, indeed, a compiler designed to create such ROMs.
> 
> Given that many ROMs are written/modified in machine code with a hex
> editor, I would go as far as to say that if we have a reasonable belief
> that even one person will ever use the emulator for the purposes of
> running a hand-written ROM, then the emulator should go to main.

I lean the other way.  If it's so easy, we should be able to package a
trivial one for demonstration purposes.  We could even ship it as part of
the emulator package itself.

Again, this is not really a DFSG or debian-legal issue, it's a Debian
Policy issue.

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