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Play Donkey Kong, go to jail? (NewsForge)
NewsForge questions
the legality of LiveCD distributions for playing arcade games.
"The software for most of these arcade games is not free. If you do
not have a legal license for a game you are playing under MAME, you are
infringing on someone's copyright."
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Play Donkey Kong, go to jail? (NewsForge) Posted Jun 1, 2004 19:55 UTC (Tue) by clugstj (subscriber, #4020) [Link] Duh, this is news?
MAME itself is only semi-free Posted Jun 1, 2004 22:22 UTC (Tue) by stevenj (subscriber, #421) [Link] And then there's the fact that MAME itself is not free (or open-source) software; e.g. from their license: MAME is free. Its source code is free. Selling either is not allowed.
MAME itself is only semi-free Posted Jun 2, 2004 9:01 UTC (Wed) by ballombe (subscriber, #9523) [Link] Unfortunately this kind of uninformed article that questions the legality of MAME(with arguments that would make all cars prohibited, but anyway) can only reinforce feelings of MAME developers that they need to protect themselves with some prohibitions in the license.
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