Alex Wulms wrote:
>
> ]
> ] > I just wanted to tell you that fMSX 2.3 was released, in case you didn't read
> ] > it on the newsgroup or on MEP.
> ]
> ] Marat is fudeba.
> ] People fix and improve his fMSX for UNIX (hi Alex, Maarten and
> ] Sean!) and he gets the money from stupid Windows users. Very cool...
> I don't mind.
>
> As long as fMSX (Unix) becomes better and better because of various people
> contributing to the emulator, I'm happy. I want to have a perfect MSX
> emulation under Linux.
Hi Alex,
I understand your point, but I totally agree with Adriano about the fMSX
license. The fMSX is a freeware with "source code available". The implicit
license says "You help me, I sell". Theres nothing that assures you this will be
this way forever.
I ask Marat about releasing fMSX as GPL and his answer was "No. I want to keep
my rigths over the code".
This give me so much to worry about the future of fMSX... You can get your own
conclusions.
You probably already read this, but it's aways a good reading: :)
http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.html
http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/categories.html
http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/words-to-avoid.html
So IMHO, if anyone want to contribute with a real OpenSource project, help Sean
Young with the really cool MSX driver for MESS. The MAME and MESS projects are
both overhelming and serious. And they're portable too.
Sean Young is doing a great job on his MSX driver and as soon as I can I'll help
him with it. But first I want to ask him some questions:
1) xMESS is totally out of date... :( Where I can get a working source code
for Linux?
2) Your site: http://www.msxnet.org/mess is out of date too. I only understand
our modifications by reading the source code. Where can I get more information?
3) Your driver is good, but pretty bad documented... Could you please get me
some directions?... :)
4) Why evolutions on the MSX driver never appear on MESS's changelog or WIP???
:(
5) How can I contribute with the code? Simply send the patches directly to you?
And last: This is one of the best articles that anyone needs to read before
contribute to any OpenSource project:
"The Cathedral and the Bazaar"
http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/writings/cathedral-bazaar/
Regards to all,
F�bio R. Schmidlin
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