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New Mame License...
SirPoonga:
--- Quote from: jelwell on April 07, 2005, 08:57:18 pm ---I hope they had a lawyer when they made this license. This clause irks me:
--- Quote ---Redistributions that are modified from the original source must include the complete source code, including the source code for all components used
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paigeoliver:
I am fairly sure none of this is applicable to anyone who downloaded the OLD Mame versions. You can't go back in time and change the license that was distributed with a previous product.
Of course, none of it really means much of anything anyway.
elvis:
--- Quote from: paigeoliver on April 08, 2005, 02:45:22 am ---Of course, none of it really means much of anything anyway.
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Most licenses out there don't mean much to anyone who does the right thing. For home users enjoying the nostalgia that MAME provides, the license really means squat.
It's just there as an unfortunate side effect of modern society where the odd bad apple will always be there to try and steal other people's hard work. Luckily the MAME devs are a fairly sensible and giving bunch, and have written a legally restrictive yet socially friendly license that doesn't hurt the people who enjoy the product the most.
jelwell:
--- Quote from: elvis on April 08, 2005, 03:43:34 am ---
--- Quote from: paigeoliver on April 08, 2005, 02:45:22 am ---Of course, none of it really means much of anything anyway.
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Most licenses out there don't mean much to anyone who does the right thing.
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Lilwolf:
btw, there are TWO things you have to consider.
When is it acceptable to use the MAME logo...
And when its acceptable to use the MAME source...
they ARE different.
Adding new games and not using the MAME logo is very acceptable.. For the logo side of it.
But using the mame source to allow games newer then 3 years old or which are still being sold by the original company is NOT.
The break down was for Zinc and basically every other emulator out there which borrow a ton of code from mame for the cpus or whatever. So they add games and can not be called MAME but still have the right to use mames source code (as long as they don't allow newer then 3 year old games, and also distribute all their source).
But 1337mAmE is NOT.
The questions is if MisfitMAME (and nonameMAME) because they allow for different games, but not new games. They would have to ask.