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@ -6,14 +6,14 @@ 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.
MAME main purpose is to be a refefence 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
@ -26,7 +26,8 @@ executable.
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II. Cost
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MAME is free. Its source code is free. Selling either is not allowed.
MAME is free. Its source code is free. Project as whole is under GPL-2.0
but most of code (including core functionality) is under BSD-3.
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@ -46,25 +47,6 @@ CD, or hard disk images.
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IV. Derivative Works
--------------------
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,

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The MAME project, as a whole, is currently released under the following
license, known as the MAME License.
Most code in MAME is under a more permissive license, or dual-licensed.
This is noted in per-file headers which specify the alternate license.
The text of the MAME License follows.
Copyright Nicola Salmoria and the MAME team
All rights reserved.
Redistribution and use of this code or any derivative works are permitted
provided that the following conditions are met:
* Redistributions may not be sold, nor may they be used in a commercial
product or activity.
* Redistributions that are modified from the original source must include the
complete source code, including the source code for all components used by a
binary built from the modified sources. However, as a special exception, the
source code distributed need not include anything that is normally distributed
(in either source or binary form) with the major components (compiler, kernel,
and so on) of the operating system on which the executable runs, unless that
component itself accompanies the executable.
* Redistributions must reproduce the above copyright notice, this list of
conditions and the following disclaimer in the documentation and/or other
materials provided with the distribution.
THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY THE COPYRIGHT HOLDERS AND CONTRIBUTORS "AS IS"
AND ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE
IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE
ARE DISCLAIMED. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE COPYRIGHT OWNER OR CONTRIBUTORS BE
LIABLE FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR
CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF
SUBSTITUTE GOODS OR SERVICES; LOSS OF USE, DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS
INTERRUPTION) HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN
CONTRACT, STRICT LIABILITY, OR TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE)
ARISING IN ANY WAY OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE
POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE.