Date: Thu, 09 Jul 1998 03:35:15 -0700 (PDT) From: Donald Burr <dburr@POBoxes.com> To: FreeBSD Ports <freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: I wish to work on VICE port PR#5667 - any comments? Message-ID: <XFMail.980709033515.dburr@POBoxes.com>
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I'd like to see VICE, the Versatile Commodore Emulator, ushered into ports. To that end, I'd like to start working on it. It is PR ports/5667. I just looked at the PR, and see that it is in "analyzed" state, but still "owned" by ports. There was some discussion amended to the pr about the questonable state of the copyrighted ROMs included with the distfile, but no ultimate decision was offered up. My personal belief is that, if I simply set RESTRICTED (i.e. don't package it, don't put it on the CD, and don't mirror the distfile) it should be OK. I base this on the fact that we already have several emulator ports in the system (xgs, atari800, fmsx, stonx, to name a few) that do exactly that. Is there any objection to me proceeding on this assumption? If this is ok with you, I'd need someone to make the port tarball (on ftp.freebsd.org:/pub/incoming/vice-0.13.0.tar.gz) accessable to me. (As a matter of fact, I had a look at ports, and it turns out that we have another C=64 port, emulators/frodo, that also includes copyrighted ROMs, but RESTRICTED is *NOT* set. Methinks we better change this. I volunteer. Any objections? [I'd still like to port VICE though, because IMHO it works a lot better and runs a lot faster than frodo.]) --- Donald Burr <dburr@POBoxes.com> - Ask me for my PGP key | PGP: Your WWW HomePage: http://DonaldBurr.base.org/ ICQ #1347455 | right to Address: P.O. Box 91212, Santa Barbara, CA 93190-1212 | 'Net privacy. Phone: (805) 957-9666 FAX: (800) 492-5954 | USE IT. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- FreeBSD - Turning PCs into Workstations - http://www.freebsd.org/ (NOTE: POBoxes.com appears to be working again -- fire away!) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message
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