On Tue, 29 Mar 2016 09:10:27 -0500 "J.B. Nicholson" <j...@forestfield.org> wrote: > Are there any free software programs MAME emulates? MAME doesn't emulate software, it emulates hardware. What is non-free here is the software running on top of that (emulated) hardware.
> Wouldn't this change make MAME free software that depends on nonfree > software in order to run? It's the other way around. As I understand it, only non-free software running on top of MAME (or the hardware it emulates) exist. > As I understand it, the programs MAME emulates are nonfree. If so, > this should raise a warning because MAME is an instance of what was > known as the Java Trap > (https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/java-trap.html) -- a free program > with nonfree dependencies. Again, the java trap is the opposite situation, free software required a non-free java implementation to run at the time. To make an analogy, the MAME equivalent with java would be if the java implementation was free software, but only non-free software was written in java. Denis.
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