tlug: vice/x64

["Stephen J. Turnbull" <turnbull@example.com>]

>>>>> "Scott" == Scott Stone <sstone@example.com> writes:

    Scott> Sort of off-topic, but, there's a PET/VIC-20/C64 emulator
    Scott> for Linux/X called 'vice', which claims to be GPL and at
    Scott> the same time includes a copy of the C64 ROMs.  is this
    Scott> legal?

Is it?  I don't know.

Could it be?  As long as the copy is not incorporated into the program
except by linking, there's no problem with the GPL (consider running
Emacs on a proprietary OS with the native libc).  There could be a big
problem with license for the C64 ROMs, of course....

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