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Can I use the i386 code in a GPL project?
#327644 - 07/01/14 07:46 AM
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I was looking at MESS, and it has quite an interesting and cool i386 software core. However there isn't any explicit license set. i386.c just contains:
/*
2 Intel 386 emulator
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4 Written by Ville Linde
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6 Currently supports:
7 Intel 386
8 Intel 486
9 Intel Pentium
10 Cyrix MediaGX
11 Intel Pentium MMX
12 Intel Pentium Pro
13 Intel Pentium II
14 Intel Pentium III
15 Intel Pentium 4
16 */
I've tried to contact Ville Linde on here but I didn't get any reply... Is there any other way to pass a message to find out if I can use this in another project?
I wanted to use it for work based stuff so I know it violates the general MAME/MESS license where I can't use it for any commercial operation, but at the same time I didnt' want to alter dosbox from C++ into C for it's CPU.
Sorry if it's all weird.
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Re: Can I use the i386 code in a GPL project?
[Re: neozeed]
#327685 - 07/02/14 06:10 PM
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I'll buzz the i386 stakeholders and see if they can agree on a dual license, like you often see in other MAME/MESS source files nowadays.
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Re: Can I use the i386 code in a GPL project?
[Re: R. Belmont]
#327689 - 07/02/14 07:30 PM
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> I'll buzz the i386 stakeholders and see if they can agree on a dual license, like you
> often see in other MAME/MESS source files nowadays.
Thanks!
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Re: Can I use the i386 code in a GPL project?
[Re: neozeed]
#328317 - 07/18/14 04:18 PM
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I think bochs is full gpl too. They have a fairly robust 386 sim.
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Re: Can I use the i386 code in a GPL project?
[Re: lharms]
#328410 - 07/21/14 04:57 AM
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Bochs is GPL, but I was basing my work off of another derivative on the mame i386 that was pretty simplified...
http://homepage3.nifty.com/takeda-toshiya/msdos/
both work with 32/64 bit compilers, big and little endian.. I just thought the mame one was more cmpact and easier to retool.
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Re: Can I use the i386 code in a GPL project?
[Re: neozeed]
#328423 - 07/21/14 02:47 PM
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> Bochs is GPL, but I was basing my work off of another derivative on the mame i386
> that was pretty simplified...
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> http://homepage3.nifty.com/takeda-toshiya/msdos/
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> both work with 32/64 bit compilers, big and little endian.. I just thought the mame
> one was more cmpact and easier to retool.
As of current SVN, MAME's i386 is dual-licensed 3-clause BSD, which is fully GPL compatible. Have fun 
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Re: Can I use the i386 code in a GPL project?
[Re: R. Belmont]
#328429 - 07/21/14 04:26 PM
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> > Bochs is GPL, but I was basing my work off of another derivative on the mame i386
> > that was pretty simplified...
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> > http://homepage3.nifty.com/takeda-toshiya/msdos/
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> > both work with 32/64 bit compilers, big and little endian.. I just thought the mame
> > one was more cmpact and easier to retool.
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> As of current SVN, MAME's i386 is dual-licensed 3-clause BSD, which is fully GPL
> compatible. Have fun
I just got the update from Ville Linde! So yeah, great news for me and others who were hoping to stand on his shoulders...
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