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| BobA:
Most of the multiboards use ROMs illegally and violate the MAME license. |
| Blanka:
--- Quote from: Paul Olson on February 24, 2009, 08:48:44 pm ---I know a lot of people here want to make money off MAME, but wanting it doesn't make it an entitlement. MAME is free to use, and you are allowed to customize it however you want, as long as you don't release any changes that are against the license. That seems like a pretty generous license to me. --- End quote --- What is bad about making money with it? Money can be catalysing the project into much nicer things. The thing with GNU is that you can make money with it yet the code stays available to others as well. Imagine Apple or Microsoft putting MAME code into iTunes and Mediaplayer with a real good front-end, making good deals with Namco, Taito and co for legal authentic ROM downloads and thus reaching 100 times the audience MAME reaches now. No problem with that IMO. No-one is able to make deals with Nintendo for a license for example. But if Steve Jobs wants a deal with Nintendo, he will get it. And we will get the ROM's, even if we need to get a real Donkey Kong through the iTunes store, I don't care. Take Virtual Box for example. It was a nice virtualisation homebrew project. Now Sun runs it and the program became very decent, yet it remains open source and free to use. And it has come much further last year as all years before. The MAME team does very nice stuff, but you must agree they also limit the project with their strict rules. |
| Ginsu Victim:
--- Quote ---What is bad about making money with it? --- End quote --- Because the license says not to. You want MAME development to stop? Start taking advantage of their hard work and it could become a reality. --- Quote ---The MAME team does very nice stuff, but you must agree they also limit the project with their strict rules. --- End quote --- They know what they're doing. We're not talking about idiots here.... |
| sean-o-mac:
Man, you're talking hundreds of thousands of dollars for a few dozen games when it comes to licensing games from big corporations. And Im pretty sure its for a limited time, then your rights expire and you cant make a profit anymore from your machines. Not to mention you still have to pay for manufacturing the arcades, distribution, taxes & so on. Sounds like a huge job. |
| anormalgeek:
The big arcade companies leave the MAME guys alone for the most part. I would bet the non-commercial use part of the license is a huge part of that. Selling a cabinet that only needs roms is easy for most people to figure out, selling one that is a bare PC seems like a daunting task to many. Granted I don't know how successful any company would be in suing the MAME dev team, but all they would need to do is harass them with DMCA violations for circumventing DRM until they give up the project or go broke. |
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