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 Post subject: MAME Considering Changing Licensing to GNU GPL/LGPL
PostPosted: Thu Nov 14, 2002 10:13 am 
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If any Daphne Developers are reading this, I just wanted to say that MAME may be changing its license to GNU GPL/LGPL.


If this becomes the case, you could reuse MAMEs code in Daphne, and possibly use its CPU cores for 8088 to allow for DL2, and the 68000 Core for ALG.


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PostPosted: Thu Nov 14, 2002 10:47 am 
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not to mention Mach 3.

On the flipside, Daphne will more than likely be assimilated.

I'm more interested in *why* Mame is considering switching licenses...


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PostPosted: Thu Nov 14, 2002 7:30 pm 
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Don't forget Us vs Them :)

I get the impression that some of the MAME devs want to change licenses because they aren't satisfied with their current one. Moreover, they are looking to make their source code more available for other projects to use. In short, their intentions seem quite noble to me. I hope they choose to do it.


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PostPosted: Thu Nov 14, 2002 9:48 pm 
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Matt Ownby wrote:
Moreover, they are looking to make their source code more available for other projects to use. In short, their intentions seem quite noble to me. I hope they choose to do it.


ah! well that makes me glad then. :) In that case I hope they do it too.


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Interestingly, MAMEDev have just rejected the use of MPEG-2 as a video format due to licensing implications.

Therefore assimilation looks to be going ahead in reverse i.e. DAPHNE assmimilating MAME cores, and picking up all the MAME LD testdrivers.


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