Re: [GNU-linux-libre] MAME

I think I've identified a difference between Gnash and MAME/MESS pertinent to this thread -- a requirement of nonfree code: MAME requires nonfree code (game ROMs) to run the game. As far as I know all MAME ROMs are nonfree. MESS emulates many computer systems and (of the code I've seen so

Re: [GNU-linux-libre] MAME

Jean Louis wrote .. > I have made mistake, I wanted to say: > > there is NOT EVEN ONE SINGLE PIECE OF FREE ROM that was made for > MAME that is on their website. Not outside of MAME website. But it shows that a given program can have multiple uses. Chris Webber has a

Re: [GNU-linux-libre] MAME

Hello, I have made mistake, I wanted to say: there is NOT EVEN ONE SINGLE PIECE OF FREE ROM that was made for MAME that is on their website. Not outside of MAME website. The project MAME does not make the project with the purpose to create free software. They distribute ROMs which are not free.

Re: [GNU-linux-libre] MAME

I gotta tell you though, that not shipping MAME as a binary package is probably the right thing to do. Because the educational value of MAME is on its source code, so I highly encourage people to grab the sources from git and build from source, so that they'll have direct access to the technical

Re: [GNU-linux-libre] MAME

> So far, out of all the "history and museum for ROMs", that is > mentioned on MAME website, there is NOT EVEN ONE SINGLE PIECE OF FREE > SOFTWARE that was made for MAME. Please, don't make false statements: https://github.com/garoa/GunSmoke/