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MAME itself is only semi-free

MAME itself is only semi-free

Posted Jun 1, 2004 22:22 UTC (Tue) by stevenj (guest, #421)
Parent article: Play Donkey Kong, go to jail? (NewsForge)

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.


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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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