Your message dated Fri, 19 Jun 2009 19:47:18 -0400
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and subject line Re: Bug#533666: RFP: gens -- Sega Genesis / Sega CD / Sega 32X
emulator
has caused the Debian Bug report #533666,
regarding RFP: gens -- Sega Genesis / Sega CD / Sega 32X emulator
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Package: wnpp
Severity: wishlist
* Package name : gens
Version : 2.14
Upstream Author : Stéphane Dallongeville
* URL : http://gens.consolemul.com/
* License : GPL
Programming Lang: C, C++, Assembly
Description : Sega Genesis / Sega CD / Sega 32X emulator
Gens is an emulator for the Sega Genesis, Sega CD, and Sega 32X.
The source can be downloaded at
http://gens.consolemul.com/download/gens-win32-src-2.14.zip.
There was a previous ITP for gens (Bug #253095) but it was closed because
Gens had supposedly too much non-free code.
>From what I see, there's various files that are Copyright to Microsoft. With
these files, I'm sure they can be replaced with the corresponding files from
ReactOS.
There's also the use of the Starscream 68k emulator library which has a non-open
source license. This could probably be replaced with the emulator from sc68 at
https://sourceforge.net/projects/sc68.
Last thing I noticed was the use of Kaillera client API code, found in the file
kailleraclient.h. There is no license for this file, so this would be a blocker
from including Gens in Debian at all, unless some replacement is found for it.
As a side note. Some of the files from Gens are being used in XBMC to play
GYM files used in the Sega Genesis. It would be really nice to have a library
just for this purpose, sort of like SNESAPU, although this isn't relevant for
this bug.
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On Friday 19 June 2009 15:11:43 Simon Ruggier wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 19, 2009 at 2:42 PM, Loïc Martin<loic.mart...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > Gens/GSs might be an easier target for license issues considering it's
> > quite active upstream. AFAIR, the fork was due to not having access to
> > gens CVS, and Dave Korth was planning to open a CVS for Gens/GS. Don't
> > know if Debian can provide one though ;)
>
> I know you're clearly talking about write access, but Gens CVS is
> available with read access at [1], so he should just take
> git-cvsimport to it and publish the resulting git repository with his
> changes applied. The command to do this is something like:
>
> git-cvsimport -p -Z,3 -v -k -u
> -d:pserver:anonym...@gens.cvs.sourceforge.net:/cvsroot/gens
> Gens-MultiPlatform
>
> [1] http://sourceforge.net/scm/?type=cvs&group_id=73619
They're using git instead.
http://gs_server.gerbilsoft.ddns.info/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?p=gens.git;a=summary
As for this RFP, I'm closing it and creating a new one for Gens/GS instead.
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Regards,
Andres
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