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+ <b>
+ <font face="Arial">MAME, the Multiple Arcade Machine
+ Emulator<br>
+ Copyright © 1997-2010 by Nicola Salmoria and the MAME team </font>
+ </b>
+ <h2><font face="Arial" size="3">I. Purpose</font></h2>
+ <p><font face="Arial" size="2">MAME is strictly a non-profit
+ project. Its main purpose is to be a reference to the inner workings
+ of the emulated arcade machines. This is done both for educational
+ purposes and for preservation purposes, in order to prevent many
+ historical games from disappearing forever once the hardware they
+ run on stops working. Of course, in order to preserve the games and
+ demonstrate that the emulated behavior matches the original, you
+ must also be able to actually play the games. This is considered a
+ nice side effect, and is not MAME's primary focus. </font></p>
+ <p><font face="Arial" size="2">It is not our intention to infringe
+ on any copyrights or patents on the original games. All of MAME's
+ source code is either our own or freely available. To operate, the
+ emulator requires images of the original ROMs, CDs, or hard disks
+ from the arcade machines, which must be provided by the user. No
+ portions of the original game code are included in the executable.
+ </font></p>
+ <h2><font face="Arial" size="3">II. Cost</font></h2>
+ <p><font face="Arial" size="2">MAME is free. Its source code is
+ free. Selling either is not allowed. </font></p>
+ <h2><font face="Arial" size="3">III. Image Files</font></h2>
+ <p><font face="Arial" size="2">ROM, CD, and hard disk images are all
+ copyrighted material. They cannot be distributed without the
+ explicit permission of the copyright owner. They are not &quot;abandonware&quot;,
+ nor have any of the games supported by MAME passed out of copyright.
+ </font></p>
+ <p><font face="Arial" size="2">MAME is not intended to be used as a
+ tool for mass copyright infringement. Therefore, it is strongly
+ against the authors' wishes to sell, advertise, or link to resources
+ that provide illegal copies of ROM, CD, or hard disk images. </font>
+ </p>
+ <h2><font face="Arial" size="3">IV. Derivative Works</font></h2>
+ <p><font face="Arial" size="2">Derivative works are allowed under
+ the MAME license. However, you are discouraged from providing
+ specific functionality that goes against the philosophy of the MAME
+ team. Specifically: </font></p>
+ <ul>
+ <li><font face="Arial" size="2">Do not add games which are more
+ recent than 3 years old, or which are still being sold new by
+ the company that produced them. MAME is not intended to be a
+ platform that competes with arcade games that are still being
+ actively sold. </font></li>
+ <li><font face="Arial" size="2">Do not provide a means of
+ generating a list of games that specifically identifies those
+ games for which the user does not have image files. This only
+ encourages users to seek out sources for illegal ROM, CD, and
+ hard disk images in order to &quot;complete&quot; their collection. </font>
+ </li>
+ <li><font face="Arial" size="2">Do not remove the startup screen
+ that contains information about why certain non-working games
+ don't work. This only serves to generate a bunch of useless
+ email traffic to the developers asking why the games don't work.
+ </font></li>
+ </ul>
+ <p><font face="Arial" size="2">Because the name MAME is trademarked,
+ you must abide by the rules of the trademark usage if you wish to
+ use &quot;MAME&quot; as part of the name your derivative work. In general,
+ this means you must request permission, which requires that you
+ follow the guidelines above. </font></p>
+ <p><font face="Arial" size="2">The version number of any derivative
+ work should reflect the version number of the MAME release it was
+ derived from. </font></p>
+ <h2><font face="Arial" size="3">V. Official Contact Information</font></h2>
+ <p><font face="Arial" size="2">For questions regarding the MAME
+ license, trademark, or other usage, go to
+ <a href="http://www.mamedev.com/contact.html?legal">
+ http://www.mamedev.com/</a>.</font></div>
+ </div>
+</div>