[Scummvm-devel] Reintroduction

[Jerome Fisher]

On 02/04/11 03:24, Filippos Karapetis wrote:
> Welcome back indeed! :) I'm glad there's work on the munt emulator again!

Hi Filippos, thank you :)

> A question: will the new stable version of munt require the MT-32 roms
> in order to work,
> like the previous one? Will there ever be a possibility to make it work
> without the roms?

The new stable version will indeed still require the ROMs. This is a FAQ 
that I really should address somewhere public, but here's a quick summary:

- IANAL, so don't take this as legal advice, but it *may* be that you 
can legally copy the ROMs in the US due to the Berne convention not 
being implemented there at the time of release, Roland apparently not 
registering for copyright, and Roland being unable to find documentation 
to support another avenue for a copyright claim in the US. Personally, 
I'm not in the US.
- The "control" ROM contains tables that I'm quite sure are not 
copyrightable, but we're nevertheless using directly for now. It also 
contains default timbre parameters which may be copyrightable, so we're 
not risking embedding those in the emulator.
- The "PCM" ROM contains a collection of fairly short sound samples. 
Whether these fall under copyright at all isn't 100% certain, but 
assuming they are the only solution is for people to record sounds that 
are as similar as possible themselves. Such an endeavour would be 
complicated by the inability to actually pass around the sounds they'd 
need to reproduce - they'd have to already own a device themselves.

> Also, since you are back, could you please have a look at two old bugs
> with the MT-32
> emulator, when you got some time?
> https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&aid=1110744&group_id=37116&atid=418820
> <https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&aid=1110744&group_id=37116&atid=418820>
> https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&aid=1336434&group_id=37116&atid=418820
> <https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&aid=1336434&group_id=37116&atid=418820>

I will do so - thanks for pointing them out.

Regards,
Jerome