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Higan in Copr
by Randy Barlow 01 Oct '18

01 Oct '18

Greetings! I noticed today that Higan[0] has been added to Copr. It's a game system emulator, and it includes some binary ROM files (for example, [4]) that I have been unable to determine the license for. I have attempted to contact the author to ask where these files came from and what their license is, but did not get a reply. The Higan website claims that these files are not subject to copyright law[5], but IANAL and am not familiar with any exceptions to Copyright law that would be unique to system ROM images, so I figured I would ask the legal list. Is Higan acceptable to be distributed by Fedora given these system ROM files that it includes? [0] https://byuu.org/emulation/higan/ [1] https://copr.fedorainfracloud.org/coprs/brollylssj/higan/ [2] https://copr.fedorainfracloud.org/coprs/raznikk [3] https://copr.fedorainfracloud.org/coprs/meeuw/higan/ [4] https://gitlab.com/higan/higan/tree/master/higan/systems/Super%20Famicom.sys [5] https://byuu.org/emulation/higan/firmware

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