> > > Oh and that core he's talking about isn't plain ole vanilla MAME72 similar to > > certain > > > other ancient cores which do the rounds there have been many code changes > > backported > > > from later MAME builds. > > > > Well, backports from MAME 0.172+ might be a license violation, so it's always nice > to > > know which those "modified cores" are. > > > > - Stiletto > > Well that still leaves all the code pre MAME172, anyway does the MAME project > have the "funds" just lying around to waste on getting legaled up trying to enforce > something which for many is considered to be unenforceable.
There's legal organizations that will protect GPL projects' licenses more or less pro bono ("for free"), or didn't you know?
That said, a lot of MAME's sourcecode is BSD licensed.
- Stiletto
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