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- MAME(tm), the Multiple Arcade Machine Emulator
- Copyright (c) 1997-2007 by Nicola Salmoria and the MAME team
- MAME is a trademark owned by Nicola Salmoria
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- I. Purpose
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- MAME is strictly a non-profit project. Its main purpose is to be a
- reference to the inner workings of the emulated arcade machines. This is
- done both for educational purposes and for preservation purposes, in
- order to prevent many historical games from disappearing forever once the
- hardware they run on stops working. Of course, in order to preserve the
- games and demonstrate that the emulated behavior matches the original,
- you must also be able to actually play the games. This is considered a
- nice side effect, and is not MAME's primary focus.
-
- It is not our intention to infringe on any copyrights or patents on the
- original games. All of MAME's source code is either our own or freely
- available. To operate, the emulator requires images of the original ROMs,
- CDs, or hard disks from the arcade machines, which must be provided by
- the user. No portions of the original game code are included in the
- executable.
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- II. Cost
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- MAME is free. Its source code is free. Selling either is not allowed.
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- III. Image Files
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- ROM, CD, and hard disk images are all copyrighted material. They cannot
- be distributed without the explicit permission of the copyright owner.
- They are not "abandonware", nor have any of the games supported by MAME
- passed out of copyright.
-
- MAME is not intended to be used as a tool for mass copyright
- infringement. Therefore, it is strongly against the authors' wishes to
- sell, advertise, or link to resources that provide illegal copies of ROM,
- CD, or hard disk images.
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- IV. Derivative Works
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- Derivative works are allowed under the MAME license. However, you are
- discouraged from providing specific functionality that goes against the
- philosophy of the MAME team. Specifically:
-
- * Do not add games which are more recent than 3 years old, or which are
- still being sold new by the company that produced them. MAME is not
- intended to be a platform that competes with arcade games that are still
- being actively sold.
-
- * Do not provide a means of generating a list of games that specifically
- identifies those games for which the user does not have image files. This
- only encourages users to seek out sources for illegal ROM, CD, and hard
- disk images in order to "complete" their collection.
-
- * Do not remove the startup screen that contains information about why
- certain non-working games don't work. This only serves to generate a
- bunch of useless email traffic to the developers asking why the games
- don't work.
-
- Because the name MAME is trademarked, you must abide by the rules of the
- trademark usage if you wish to use "MAME" as part of the name your
- derivative work. In general, this means you must request permission,
- which requires that you follow the guidelines above.
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- The version number of any derivative work should reflect the version
- number of the MAME release it was derived from.
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- V. Official Contact Information
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- For questions regarding the MAME license, trademark, or other usage, go
- to http://www.mamedev.org/
-