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MAME(tm), the Multiple Arcade Machine Emulator
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Copyright (c) 1997-2013 by Nicola Salmoria and the MAME team
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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
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reference to the inner workings of the emulated arcade machines. This is
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done both for educational purposes and for preservation purposes, in
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order to prevent many historical games from disappearing forever once the
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hardware they run on stops working. Of course, in order to preserve the
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games and demonstrate that the emulated behavior matches the original,
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you must also be able to actually play the games. This is considered a
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nice side effect, and is 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 ROMs,
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CDs, or hard disks from the arcade machines, which must be provided by
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the user. No portions of the original game code are included in the
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executable.
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II. Cost
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MAME is free. Its source code is free. Selling either is not allowed.
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III. Image Files
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ROM, CD, and hard disk images are all copyrighted material. They cannot
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be distributed without the explicit permission of the copyright owner.
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They are not "abandonware", nor have any of the games supported by MAME
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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 ROM,
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CD, or hard disk images.
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IV. Derivative Works
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Derivative works are allowed under the MAME license. However, you are
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discouraged from providing specific functionality that goes against the
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philosophy of the MAME team. Specifically:
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* Do not add games which are more recent than 3 years old, or which are
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still being sold new by the company that produced them. MAME is not
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intended to be a platform that competes with arcade games that are still
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being actively sold.
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* Do not provide a means of generating a list of games that specifically
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identifies those games for which the user does not have image files. This
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only encourages users to seek out sources for illegal ROM, CD, and hard
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disk images in order to "complete" their collection.
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* Do not remove the startup screen that contains information about why
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certain non-working games don't work. This only serves to generate a
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bunch of useless email traffic to the developers asking why the games
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don't work.
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Because the name MAME is trademarked, you must abide by the rules of the
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trademark usage if you wish to use "MAME" as part of the name your
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derivative work. In general, this means you must request permission,
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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 it was derived from.
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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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