Bug#607598: visualboyadvance: 2xSaImmx.asm only allows for *non commercial* use

Julien Cristau jcristau at debian.org
Tue Dec 28 19:28:41 UTC 2010


On Mon, Dec 20, 2010 at 13:38:58 +1030, Karl Goetz wrote:

> Package: visualboyadvance
> Severity: serious
> Tags: upstream
> Justification: non commercial licence, not allowed in main
> User: karl at kgoetz.id.au
> Usertags: libreplanet
> 
> 
> Hi,
> visualboyadvance in debian contains a file which lacks commercial distribution
> rights [1]. Since this isn't granted by default, we need a new licence or the
> file removed (or the package moved into non-free, but that seems a bit
> extreme).
> 
Did you try contacting upstream, or the author of this file?
I guess worst case we can drop this file and drop the optimisation on
i386 by building with --without-mmx.

Cheers,
Julien
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