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libretro / mame2010-libretro

Late 2010 version of MAME (0.139) for libretro. Compatible with MAME 0.139 sets.
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License #137

Closed guoyunhe closed 4 years ago

guoyunhe commented 4 years ago

I am packaging MAME cores for openSUSE Linux. You may know that most Linux distributions have their license guidelines. The package need to correctly indicate its license.

I read this blog post: https://www.mamedev.org/?p=422

So MAME core is GPL/BSD licensed. :heavy_check_mark:

MAME 2000 and MAME 2010 don't have a license in the repo. :question:

MAME 2003 and MAME 2003+ have a custom license. Are they FOSS or freeware :question:

hizzlekizzle commented 4 years ago

Every MAME prior to circa March 2016 uses the custom MAME license, which is noncommercial, "nonfree"/source-available.

But I agree that the license should be included in all codebases just for clarity.

guoyunhe commented 4 years ago

@hizzlekizzle thanks for information!