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IntruderAlert:


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--- Quote from: IntruderAlert on March 03, 2005, 06:24:07 pm ---It would be interesting to know if David R. Foley has approached Aaron or Haze about getting the rights to use M.A.M.E. code

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I am a bit confussed. How can anyone use Mame in a commercial  product?
It is stated that can not be done?

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It can be done. But your not supposed to. And I would reccomend not doing it.

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Yes, but it may be too late for David R. Foley

daywane:

seems like some can and some can not  :(


Crazy Cooter:

I believe in two eyes for one...

Santoro:

As much as I'd like to see Foley out of business (I joked earlier about how cool it would be if his system was cracked and distributed,) there are US and possibly other laws about circumventing copy protection.   I wouldn't suggest doing it.  :police:

IntruderAlert:


--- Quote from: mr.Curmudgeon on March 03, 2005, 03:11:03 pm ---
--- Quote from: IntruderAlert on March 03, 2005, 02:55:41 pm ---4) - David R. Foley becomes even more concerned over the possibility of M.A.M.E. code being discovered in his arcade machines...

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You may be on to something. Sounds compelling. I just found a PDF Manual for Ultracade machines (http://www.happcontrols.com/images/pdf/ultracade_manual.pdf), and there was something that caught my eye:

"By accepting and operating an ULTRACADE system, the owner/operator of each ULTRACADE system agrees to abide by all copyrights and trademarks and not to attempt to decompile or modify the operating system in anyway."

Is this clause standard? Or *is* he hiding something? Given your assumption above, it does sound fishy.


mrC

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Yes, I believe that it is very possible that David R. Foley has been hiding behind that user agreement and has gambled that it would protect him from anyone discovering M.A.M.E. code in his machines OS.
Now with the leverage of the M.A.M.E. trademark he would hope to get official rights to the M.A.M.E. code and avoid the possibility of being sued by the M.A.M.E. creators.


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