The vice emulator (being just one example) is distributed by maemo.org incl. the complete set of rom images of the entire family of commodore 8 bit home computers incl. all rom images used in peripherals like the floppy drives. We are talking about the entire machine code of an entire generation of computers from the 80s. Just out of couriosity: Where do you have your "knowledge" from? Who speads this "this is only 5%" nonsense?
It's a good question and i actually posted in the calculator emulator thread asking if it was really a good idea to be distributing the ROMs from the repos. I was told nicely to go soak my head, so i left it alone. I would prefer to not see anything in the repos that is illegal, even if it's not something likely to draw legal action.