> > It's open source too! So hopefully that means the MESS crew will find it helpful > for > > MESS development > > Nope. Their license is basically "if you ever see their source code, they own (as in > commercially) everything you program afterwards". And they refused to fix that. So > e.g. Phil Bennett has working 3D0 drivers for MAME and MESS that he can't submit > because he worked with them and it would cause them to own MAME and MESS. (Yes, we > requested very politely that they fix that, and they refused). > > In other words, the fact that they are "open source" in a fashion has actually ended > MAME/MESS progress on the related systems. No joke. >>>