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Re:DOSBox ported to run in Chrome via Native Client. Some ga... by cosgroveb on Tuesday May 10, 2011 @12:06PM (#2532966)
Yeah, I don't think the old loophole of running GPL'ed code on your server would apply here since DOSBox would be downloaded and executed in the browser. He has to release the source.
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Re:DOSBox ported to run in Chrome via Native Client. Some ga... by pygy_ on Tuesday May 10, 2011 @12:21PM (#2533023)
Furthermore, he didn't just adapt the build scripts. The game files are not mounted from a discreet disk image, he made a hack to get them available from the DOSBox internal Z: drive (which isn't actually a disk image but the interface to internal functions).
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Re:DOSBox ported to run in Chrome via Native Client. Some ga... by dragmorp_ on Tuesday May 10, 2011 @05:50PM (#2534230)
I love that you tracked this down. I was definitely "pragmatic" when working on this port.
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