On 09/27/2018 04:06 PM, Randy Barlow wrote: > 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. I am unaware of any reason why these binary ROM files would not be copyrightable, especially since they contain system firmware. > Is Higan acceptable to be distributed by Fedora given these system ROM > files that it includes? Based on what you've shown me, no. ~tom _______________________________________________ legal mailing list -- legal@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to legal-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: https://getfedora.org/code-of-conduct.html List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/legal@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
