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Originally Posted by Master of Gizmo View Post
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?
Last time I looked, which admittedly was a while ago, maemo.org was distributing emulators but not roms.

It appears that this is no longer the case, which it seems our even games mod himself is uneasy about:

Originally Posted by Flandry View Post
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.
I confess I share his reservations. One can only hope that the relevant copyright owners will not be too bothered.

The principle of ‘fair use’ is an element of the copyright laws, and covers how much of someone else’s material you may legitimately quote (appropriately attributed). It is the law under which your blog post about the film you saw last night may contain images or a short clip from the film, but not the entire movie. I thought I had made it clear that I think the rule of thumb generally used is 5%. In reality, use of much less might still constitute an infringement, depending on how significant the material is.

Where did I get this information? 8 years as a moderator and admin in a Star Trek Community. And yes, Paramount are very hot on suing if they feel their copyright is infringed.
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