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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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+ MAME main purpose is to be a refefence to the inner workings of
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+ the emulated arcade machines. This is done both for educational purposes
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+ and for preservation purposes, in order to prevent many historical games
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+ from disappearing forever once the hardware they run on stops working.
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+ Of course, in order to preserve the games and demonstrate that the
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+ emulated behavior matches the original, you must also be able to actually
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+ play the games. This is considered a nice side effect, and is not MAME's
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+ 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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II. Cost
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- MAME is free. Its source code is free. Selling either is not allowed.
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+ MAME is free. Its source code is free. Project as whole is under GPL-2.0
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+ but most of code (including core functionality) is under BSD-3.
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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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