VICE package info reports no ROMs included, but .deb has them

[Chris Cureau]

Binary package hint: vice

According to apt-cache:

 This package does not contain the various ROM images needed to
 actually use the emulators; they are available separately from other
 locations (see the README.ROMs file). A corporation in the
 Netherlands called Tulip holds the copyrights to the ROM images, and
 redistribution is not permitted, but VICE itself is unencumbered.

Yet, if one does 'apt-get install vice', all of the emulated machines include ROM images. If the ROMs are under current valid copyright, they should not be in the package.

NOTE: Debian includes these ROMs with its own .deb, so is it okay to leave them in Ubuntu as well?

Description: Ubuntu 8.10
Release: 8.10

vice:
  Installed: 1.22-3
  Candidate: 1.22-3
  Version table:
 *** 1.22-3 0
        500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com intrepid/multiverse Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

[StefanPotyra (sistpoty)]

Hi,

Nope, debian (and neither Ubuntu) includes the copyright protected roms, marking the bug as invalid hence.

If you think, there is in fact a copyright protected rom shipped in the package, please reopen and give the filename of the rom in question.

Thanks,
     Stefan.