Re: [GNU-linux-libre] Update MAME?

The non-commercial clause was dropped when the project adopted the GPL license many years ago. Em ter., 8 de ago. de 2023 às 01:16, Michael McMahon escreveu: > According to the links, it seems that MAME is free. The code is GPLv2. > MAME is trademarked so you would have to rename it and replace

Re: [GNU-linux-libre] Adding some scummvm game(s) to the "List of software that does not respect the Free System Distribution Guidelines".

I guess the vast majority of those games are non-free. And I think this reflects a lost opportunity to educate all those enthusiastic game developers about software freedom. It would be interesting to try to come up with a list of contacts of all those developers, find out what they're doing nowada

Re: [GNU-linux-libre] Adding some scummvm game(s) to the "List of software that does not respect the Free System Distribution Guidelines".

> "why does the distro make this program available? for what task is it useful?" - the only answer to give is: "it's only known use is for playing non-free games; but this distro has none of those available" Well... another valid reply could be: "It creates a runtime environment equivalent to the

Re: [GNU-linux-libre] Code which implements DRM in order to expose DRM-encumbered data is GNU FSDG compliant?

Em qui., 5 de mai. de 2022 às 11:20, Denis 'GNUtoo' Carikli < gnu...@cyberdimension.org> escreveu: > Em ter., 3 de mai. de 2022 às 14:58, Felipe Sanches > escreveu: > > > I'd like to mention that I am extremely annoyed by > > Telegram-desktop's im

Re: [GNU-linux-libre] Code which implements DRM in order to expose DRM-encumbered data is GNU FSDG compliant?

I'd like to mention that I am extremely annoyed by Telegram-desktop's implementation of an anti-featured which forbids the user to copy/paste or forward text (and also forbids saving images or other media included in the messages) from certain groups where the admin has enabled the restriction. It

Re: [GNU-linux-libre] Code which implements DRM in order to expose DRM-encumbered data is GNU FSDG compliant?

sorry for the typo. In my previous message I meant "anti-feature". Em ter., 3 de mai. de 2022 às 14:58, Felipe Sanches escreveu: > I'd like to mention that I am extremely annoyed by > Telegram-desktop's implementation of an anti-featured which forbids the > user

Re: [GNU-linux-libre] GNU/Linux Activation Technologies

That's weird... What could be the underlying purpose of such kind of misinformation campaign?! I can't yet grasp exactly what was attempted here... Em dom, 27 de out de 2019 às 16:05, Andreas Grapentin escreveu: > > Hi, > > please disregard that email, it has not been written by bill-auger. We >

Re: [GNU-linux-libre] PureOS added to endorsed distro list - what about the kernel?

Regarding devices that rely on non-free fw but that could also work "without firmware"... I think that most likely does not exist. There are devices that have the fw loaded into RAM and thus require an install at every power up otherwise they will simply not work. But there are also devices that h

Re: [GNU-linux-libre] MAME emulator is giving incentive to use non-free software

Also, for some additional insight on the topic, here's my talk about MAME at LibrePlanet 2016: http://mamedev.emulab.it/fsanches/2016/04/07/hardware-reverse-engineering-insights-from-the-mame-project/ On Wed, Apr 20, 2016 at 7:22 PM, Luke wrote: > FYI, the Parabola community has a breakdown of

Re: [GNU-linux-libre] [libreplanet-discuss] programming language package manager

cluding free software; even if they >>> only have free software today, that may not be true tomorrow. Programs >>> in the system >>> should not suggest installing nonfree plugins, documentation, and so on." >>> >>> >>> have fun and be free >&g

Re: [GNU-linux-libre] [libreplanet-discuss] programming language package manager

t;> in the system >> should not suggest installing nonfree plugins, documentation, and so on." >> >> >> have fun and be free >> ali miracle >> >> 2016-04-04 14:47 جرينتش-07:00, IngeGNUe : >>> On 04/03/16 18:37, Felipe Sanches wrote: >>>

Re: [GNU-linux-libre] MAME emulator is giving incentive to use non-free software

tatus/686597622417719296 Happy Hacking, Felipe Sanches On Mon, Apr 4, 2016 at 7:47 PM, Felipe Sanches wrote: > On Mon, Apr 4, 2016 at 7:23 PM, alírio eyng wrote: >> Felipe Sanches: >>>MAME provides an interactive debugger >> so mame is not just an emulator. >> it is a emulator, di

Re: [GNU-linux-libre] MAME emulator is giving incentive to use non-free software

On Mon, Apr 4, 2016 at 7:23 PM, alírio eyng wrote: > Felipe Sanches: >>MAME provides an interactive debugger > so mame is not just an emulator. > it is a emulator, disassembler and debugger. > this is relevant information i can't see in official documentation, thanks. &

Re: [GNU-linux-libre] MAME emulator is giving incentive to use non-free software

On Mon, Apr 4, 2016 at 12:26 AM, alírio eyng wrote: > Felipe Sanches: >>I will try not to talk here any more, unless I >>have something really new to say. > i will probably continue replying while people are quoting me and > making proposals or confusing general-purpose

Re: [GNU-linux-libre] programming language package manager

I've been concerned for a while about this as well. Any idea if anyone has ever tried dealing with this problem already? On Sun, Apr 3, 2016 at 7:34 PM, Ali Abdul Ghani wrote: > Most of us use Package manager to install Programs > in fully free gnu/linux distributions all the repositorys is free

Re: [GNU-linux-libre] MAME emulator is giving incentive to use non-free software

ng really new to say. Happy Hacking Felipe Sanches On Sun, Apr 3, 2016 at 6:02 PM, alírio eyng wrote: > Felipe Sanches: >>On Sun, Apr 3, 2016 at 3:36 PM, alírio eyng wrote: >>> Tobias Platen: >>>> Emulators can be useful for reverse engineering > ... >>> emul

Re: [GNU-linux-libre] MAME emulator is giving incentive to use non-free software

On Sun, Apr 3, 2016 at 3:36 PM, alírio eyng wrote: > Tobias Platen: >> Emulators can be useful for reverse engineering > reverse engineering is the action of understanding undocumented > interfaces (mostly hardware). > emulators are the _result_ of reverse engineering, not tools to do it. > this r

Re: [GNU-linux-libre] MAME

yes. I already provided examples. Try to re-read this whole thread. Or at least the message that says: "That's not entirely true. MAME has got drivers for open hardware systems which run fully free firmware (even though their emulation is not yet working perfectly). Some examples that I can remem

Re: [GNU-linux-libre] MAME

ect, I could also mention the Rockbox project as well (and also the Arduino bootloader and probably many other sw freedom projects). Thus, it is pretty clear that "being non-free" is not a necessary characteristic of a piece of software for it to be called "firmware". On Fri,

Re: [GNU-linux-libre] MAME

I'm a free software activist and I use the term "free software" with exactly this meaning of free as in freedom. So please re-read my statements. On Fri, Apr 1, 2016 at 6:55 PM, Jean Louis wrote: > On Fri, Apr 01, 2016 at 06:47:04PM -0300, Felipe Sanches wrote: >> "

Re: [GNU-linux-libre] MAME

"Please provide clear list of that, as that can help certainly. It is good to remember that "free firmware" cannot be free software, as there is no corresponding source code for that. It is firmware." This sounds pretty much non-sense to me. Maybe we have incompatible definitions of what "firmware

Re: [GNU-linux-libre] MAME

On Fri, Apr 1, 2016 at 3:01 PM, Denis 'GNUtoo' Carikli wrote: >> 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.

Re: [GNU-linux-libre] MAME

Let's say that I own a very old computer (such as the Commodore 64, for instance) and that I want to implement a free BIOS for it, to replace its original non-free boot-ROM code. I can develop my new free BIOS code, compile it, generating as a result a ROM image file, burn it into an UV-erasable E

Re: [GNU-linux-libre] MAME

actually: GPL v2 or later. On Thu, Mar 31, 2016 at 1:13 PM, wrote: > On 2016-03-31 17:01, J.B. Nicholson wrote: >> >> Julian Marchant wrote: >>> >>> As far as I know, all Flash objects are non-libre. >> >> >> How do you figure this? >> >>> This is the error in your reasoning: even if it's true t

Re: [GNU-linux-libre] MAME

s in the driver sources). And even not shipping anything at all could be pretty much OK as well, given the extreme fast pace of MAME development on git making it much preferable to build it from a git repo checkout. I hope this provides some additional insight on the bright-side of MAME. Felipe S

Re: [GNU-linux-libre] MAME

nical specification that is described in each machine driver. On Wed, Mar 30, 2016 at 5:36 AM, Felipe Sanches wrote: >> 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 >>

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/ https://github.com/garoa/GunSmoke/blob/master/hom

Re: [GNU-linux-libre] MAME

yes, Matt is right. Even though nowadays MAME and MESS got merged into a single project called simply MAME. On Tue, Mar 29, 2016 at 5:32 PM, Matt Lee wrote: > The majority of video game systems that MAME can emulate have very > little in the way of free software that can run on them, but MAME als

Re: [GNU-linux-libre] MAME

MAME emulates vintage general-purpose computers. It is pretty clear that people can implement free-software operating systems and programs for those vintage computers as well. On Tue, Mar 29, 2016 at 4:10 PM, J.B. Nicholson wrote: > Felipe Sanches wrote: >> >> It is basicall

Re: [GNU-linux-libre] MAME

It is basically only used for running arbitrary non-free flash programs sent to the user. On Tue, Mar 29, 2016 at 2:43 PM, J.B. Nicholson wrote: > Felipe Sanches wrote: >> >> What are the goals of Gnash ? > > > I don't know, nor am I a Gnash developer or Gnash use

Re: [GNU-linux-libre] MAME

What are the goals of Gnash ? On Tue, Mar 29, 2016 at 2:18 PM, J.B. Nicholson wrote: > Felipe Sanches wrote: >> >> Such museum (without any ROM file) is now fully free, regardless of >> what you might attempt to do with it at runtime after compiling it. > > > Pra

Re: [GNU-linux-libre] MAME

One interesting aspect of MAME is that the source code itself is key to its mission. Even if you do not run the code, it is already fulfilling its goals, which can be described as a "hardware museum in the shape of technical specifications". Such museum (without any ROM file) is now fully free, re

Re: [GNU-linux-libre] MAME

the binary package is also free, but inducing users to download and run non-free ROMs. That's also the case for any other free-software emulator, though. Any idea how we've dealt with this in cases such as dosbox, and other free software emulators? On Tue, Mar 29, 2016 at 11:05 AM, Feli

Re: [GNU-linux-libre] MAME

The codebase is now fully free. But the vast majority of games (perhaps all of them) require non-free ROMs. So this is a special case that requires some thought. On Mon, Mar 28, 2016 at 8:57 PM, wrote: > Hello > > The MAME project has recently re-licensed the project to GPL2 (with GPL3 > parts).

[GNU-linux-libre] Adobe Spies On Users' eBook Libraries

Adobe Spies On Users' eBook Libraries Posted by Soulskill on Tuesday October 07, 2014 @01:41PM from the digital-edition-is-the-worst-software dept. New submitter stasike writes:

[GNU-linux-libre] choosealicense.com fork with better wording, perhaps ?

Is there something similar to http://choosealicense.com/ but with language better aligned to the mission of the free software movement ? happy hacking, Felipe Sanches

Re: [GNU-linux-libre] Fwd: Please inform free distro maintainers

mantain a patched version of the upstream packages, but certainly it can be done :-) happy hacking, Felipe Sanches On Tue, Mar 20, 2012 at 2:00 AM, Karl Goetz wrote: > On Mon, 19 Mar 2012 19:57:24 +0100 > Sam Geeraerts wrote: > > > Jason Self wrote: > > > Karl Goetz wr

Re: [GNU-linux-libre] Linux & GPLv3

Yes, sure! I believe that is valuable information! On Thu, Dec 1, 2011 at 11:50 PM, Jason Self wrote: > There was a recent discussion about the Linux kernel and GPLv3 on a > mailing list and it made me wonder how much stuff is licensed under v2 only > terms. > > So I fed Linux-libre 3.1.4 to FOS

Re: [GNU-linux-libre] Linux-libre compilation option: "Include in-kernel firmware blobs in kernel binary"

can we patch the description of the kernel config option to explicitely state "free-firmware" ? On Mon, Apr 18, 2011 at 6:49 PM, Alexandre Oliva wrote: > On Apr 18, 2011, Karl Goetz wrote: > > > On Sun, 17 Apr 2011 16:37:26 +0200 > > Christophe Jarry wrote: > > >> -*- Userspace firmware loadin