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MAME(r)
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Copyright (c) 1997-2016 by MAMEdev and contributors
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MAME is a registered trademark of Nicola Salmoria
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I. Purpose
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MAME main purpose is to be a reference to the inner workings of the
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emulated machines. This is done both for educational purposes and for
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preservation purposes, in order to prevent historical software from
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disappearing forever once the hardware it runs on stops working. Of
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course, in order to preserve the software and demonstrate that the
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emulated behavior matches the original, one must also be able to
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actually use the software. This is considered a nice side effect, and is
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not MAME's primary focus.
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It is not our intention to infringe on any copyrights or patents on the
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original games. All of MAME's source code is either our own or freely
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available. To operate, the emulator requires images of the original
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ROMs, CDs, hard disks or other media from the machines, which must be
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provided by the user. No portions of the original game code are included
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in the executable.
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II. Cost
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MAME is free. Its source code is free. The project as whole is
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distributed under the GNU General Public License, version 2 or later
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(GPL-2.0+), but most of code (including core functionality) is also
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available under the 3-clause BSD license (BSD-3-clause).
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III. Software Image Files
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ROM, CD, hard disk and other media images are all copyrighted material.
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They cannot be distributed without the explicit permission of the
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copyright holder(s). They are not "abandonware", nor has any of the
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software supported by MAME passed out of copyright.
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MAME is not intended to be used as a tool for mass copyright
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infringement. Therefore, it is strongly against the authors' wishes to
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sell, advertise, or link to resources that provide illegal copies of
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ROM, CD, hard disk or other media images.
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IV. Derivative Works
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Because the name MAME is trademarked, you must abide by the rules set
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out for trademark usage if you wish to use "MAME" as part of the name
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your derivative work. In general, this means you must request
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permission, which requires that you follow the guidelines above.
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The version number of any derivative work should reflect the version
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number of the MAME release from which it was was derived.
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V. Official Contact Information
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For questions regarding the MAME license, trademark, or other usage, go
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to http://www.mamedev.org/
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