> Warren Wilkinson <[email protected]> writes:>
I'm interested in using EMMS to cue and control SPCs! Its cool you've hacked on this. >> Yoni Rabkin <[email protected]> writes: >> >>> What is the licensing situation surrounding this format? Has Nintendo >>> released the specifications under a free license? It looks like SPC as a format itself was developed by the ZSNES developers based on what I could find. Its source code is under GPLv2 I believe, its a bit hard to locate. >>>From what I gather, the data in an SPC file is a 64 kb memory dump of >>> the audio chip on the SNES. the metadata isn't. it sounds like the Elisp code would simply read the metadata. see libspctag as a GPL3 licensed version of reading the ID666 tags. > It sounds like it was internal to Nintendo, and therefore never publicly > published. > > It's an interesting question. I'll ask the people over at the > emacs-devel mailing list what they think, since Emms is installable from > within Emacs. sounds prudent, even though it seems safe-ish to me. i certainly haven't had to deal with any kinds of these issues. It would certainly be horrible to have Nintendo come after Emacs with some DMCA nonsense. -- Tokṡa ake Grant Shangreaux
