Thread: On the distribution of copyrighted material
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2010-03-30 , 13:07
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Originally Posted by lma View Post
We do.
Yes, i'm familiar with that but understandably confused due to some very popular exceptions by well known developers.

Anyway, as a point of curiosity, if an app fails to pass testing because of this particular point, does it in actual practice get removed from the repository?

That's orthogonal to this. Closed-source in extras (non-free) may be fine, copyright infringement isn't.
That is part of it:
- Free redistribution.

But obviously not the part that was considered optional here.

Originally Posted by eiffel View Post
It's better to describe these as "proprietary home computer rom images" instead of "copyrighted home computer rom images".

Most of the software in the repository is copyrighted, but it's legal to distribute it when it's open-source licensed rather than proprietary. Terminology matters.
Yes, it was a third-party quote.
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