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Re: About VICE



On Thu, Jul 20, 2000 at 05:57:30PM +0200, Christian Surchi wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 20, 2000 at 04:49:35PM +0100, Edward Betts wrote:
> 
> > It does not need ROMS from the old computers to run? The software that comes
> > built into the machines?
> 
> Ops, in my mail I mean games, (tape, disk, or cartridge
> images) not roms. 
> 
> btw, now vice is in contrib so it's DFSG compliant and does not depend on
> something outside main. So why not in main?

Because it wont work without a non-free component? If you cannot use it
wihtout the ROM, then it must be in contrib (even if that ROM can be
gotten freely, it is still not included).

Ben

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