> Well, he did have the additional complaint that, in addition to any legal problems > with relicensing, he considered a thorough audit of the code to be a huge time sink > without any real benefit to the project, and thought developers should be spending > that time improving emulation instead.
Hopefully you understand the problem with that statement: if the team takes his advice, then the licensing problem never gets resolved and he can use it against the project any time he likes.
As far as improving the emulation, 0.151 fixes 36 MAMETesters bugs, at least one of which dates back to late 2006.