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-MAME(r)
-Copyright (c) 1997-2016 by MAMEdev and contributors
-MAME is a registered trademark of Nicola Salmoria
-
-
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-I. Purpose
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-MAME main purpose is to be a reference to the inner workings of the
-emulated machines. This is done both for educational purposes and for
-preservation purposes, in order to prevent historical software from
-disappearing forever once the hardware it runs on stops working. Of
-course, in order to preserve the software and demonstrate that the
-emulated behavior matches the original, one must also be able to
-actually use the software. This is considered a nice side effect, and is
-not MAME's primary focus.
-
-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, hard disks or other media from the machines, which must be
-provided by the user. No portions of the original game code are included
-in the executable.
-
-
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-II. Cost
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-MAME is free. Its source code is free. The project as whole is
-distributed under the GNU General Public License, version 2 or later
-(GPL-2.0+), but most of code (including core functionality) is also
-available under the 3-clause BSD license (BSD-3-clause).
-
-
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-III. Software Image Files
--------------------------
-ROM, CD, hard disk and other media images are all copyrighted material.
-They cannot be distributed without the explicit permission of the
-copyright holder(s). They are not "abandonware", nor has any of the
-software supported by MAME passed out of copyright.
-
-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, hard disk or other media images.
-
-
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-IV. Derivative Works
---------------------
-Because the name MAME is trademarked, you must abide by the rules set
-out for trademark usage if you wish to use "MAME" as part of the name
-your derivative work. In general, this means you must request
-permission, which requires that you follow the guidelines above.
-
-The version number of any derivative work should reflect the version
-number of the MAME release from which it was was derived.
-
-
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-V. Official Contact Information
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-For questions regarding the MAME license, trademark, or other usage, go
-to http://www.mamedev.org/